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GUEST ARTIST

Matthew Anderson

Tenor Matthew Anderson is a versatile and compelling
performer of opera, oratorio, and musical theater.
An accomplished interpreter of the music of Bach,
Mr. Anderson sings regularly as a soloist in Boston’s
renowned Emmanuel Music Bach Cantata Series.
He has been a featured soloist at the Aldeburgh,
Carmel Bach, and Baldwin Wallace Bach Festivals.
He has received particular acclaim for his portrayals of the Evangelists in
Bach’s Passions, which he has performed throughout North America. Mr.
Anderson is a prizewinner in the American Bach Society and Oratorio
Society of New York Solo Competitions.
Recent performances from Mr. Anderson’s varied repertoire include
the Boston premiere of Galina Grigorjeva’s On Leaving with the Boston
Symphony, Handel’s Acis and Galatea (Damon) with the Mark Morris
Dance Group; Scarlatti’s La Caduta de’ Decemviri with ACRONYM at
the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Bach’s Coffee Cantata with Boston
Baroque; Mozart’s Requiem with the National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall;
Stravinsky’s Renard at Tanglewood and the Mostly Mozart Festival with the
Mark Morris Dance Group; Handel’s Messiah with the Masterwork Chorus
at Carnegie Hall; John Harbison’s Winter’s Tale with the Boston Modern
Orchestra Project; and Britten’s Les Illuminations with The Orchestra of
Indian Hill.
He has sung with conductors Masaaki Suzuki, Nicholas McGegan, Paul
Goodwin, Harry Christophers, Martin Pearlman, John Harbison, Craig
Smith, Julian Wachner, and Laurence Cummings and appeared as soloist
with ensembles such as the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque,
the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Cantata Singers, and the Handel
Choir of Baltimore.
Also recognized as a gifted performer of the American songbook, Mr.
Anderson recently joined Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops for their
Bernstein Centennial Tribute at Boston Symphony Hall. In previous
seasons, he has appeared with the Pops in Carousel (as Mr. Snow) and in
celebrations of the music of Richard Rodgers and Cole Porter.
Mr. Anderson studied Classics at Harvard and voice at the New England
Conservatory. He spent two seasons as a vocal fellow at the Tanglewood
Music Center and was a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow with Emmanuel
Music. He also trained in the James Collier Apprentice Artist Program at
Des Moines Metro Opera, the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, and
the Cincinnati Opera Resident Ensemble. Mr. Anderson is a Kansas native
and lives in Boston with his husband John and daughter Nora.

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