Warm greetings to Matthew Brook's website. Matthew had a very busy 2017-18 Season, performing in opera and in concert halls around the globe. Highlights were his Carnegie Hall debut with Harry Bicket and Joyce diDonato in Handel's "Ariodante", Tanglewood Festival debut with Harry Christophers in Purcell's "Fairy Queen", recording Handel's "Samson" with John Butt and the Dunedin Consort for Linn records, and a memorable week in Melbourne with Sir Andrew Davies and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, performing and recording Berlioz' "L'Enfance du Christ" for Chandos, released in March 2019.
He enjoyed reviving the role of Il Re in "Ariodante" with Stuttgart Staatsoper with Guiliano Carella and last Autumn, with Christopher Moulds.
Matthew has continued his close relationship with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging and their AllofBach series. You are very welcome to delve into their wonderful catalogue of beautifully filmed Bach series.
Matthew appears in many of their performances there, some awaiting editing, so keep looking at their AllofBach website. Matthew continued his working friendship with Sir John Eliot Gardiner this season with the Monteverdi Choir's mammoth Bach Cycle tour, performing in the finest concert halls and Churches across Europe.
A new venture included a especially devised theatre piece "View from the Villa" by lain Burnside on Wagner's relationship with the Wesendoncks, alongside the wonderful Susan Bickley and Victoria Newlyn at the St Endellion Summer Festival.
He also really enjoyed returning to the Edinburgh International Festival to sing the role of Manoah from Handel's "Samson" with his long standing colleague John Butt. Matthew's 18/19 season is very busy, with rare performances of Handel's "The Triumph of Time and Truth" with Edward Higginbottom in the autumn, Ariodante in Stuttgart, St John Passion with Jonathan Cohen and the St Paul's Chamber Orchestra, USA.

Later, Matthew realised a childhood dream of singing two performances of Britten’s War Requiem in Ripon and Huddersfield UK. Also, he sang numerous Messiah’s throughout December including a version for Wind Ensemble in Norway!

He performed Handel’s “Apollo et Dafne” with up and coming superstar Rowan Pierce and the Dunedin Consort in February, and also sang Berlioz “L’Enfance du Christ” with Sir Andrew Davies and the BBC NOW in Cardiff, Lute recitals with Liz Kenny and Nicholas Mulroy, Mozart in Versailles with The King’s Consort, Sorcerer in Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” with Harry Christopher and much loved colleagues, The Handel and Haydn Society, in Boston and the Met Museum NYC.

Matthew will sing performances of Elgar’s “Dream of Gerontius” with Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Michael Francis, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Gli Angeli and Stephan Macleod in Switzerland and the majestic B Minor Mass with Bernard Labardie and Les Violon des Roi in Quebec, Montreal and the Carnegie Hall, New York. Matthew will also sing Haydn’s “Seasons” in Slovenia and will make another appearance at the Boston Early Music Festival, this time with Kristian Bezuidenhout singing the Matthew Passion, and will perform with him with the English Concert and Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. 

He really looks forward to performing with Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla again, this time with the Orchestral National de France at the St Denis Festival singing Tippett’s A Child of our Time. Matthew will perform and record an opera by Stephen Dodgson in Snape in July. 

He plans to appear with the CBSO in Monte Carlo and Birmingham singing the title role of Mendelssohn “Elijah” conducted by Kazuki Yamada. He will also appear once more at the Rheingau Festival, singing Bach B Minor Mass with Paul McCreesh.

Matthew can’t wait to spend August in Vancouver singing a variety of repertoire at the early music festival there.
He will start rehearsals in the Autumn of 2019 in a new production of Handel’s Rinaldo in Oviedo, Spain, followed by Messiahs in London with the Sixteen, and throughout Canada with Les Violons de Roi and the Canada National Arts Centre Orchestra and Bernard Labardie.

March 2019