Bass-Baritone

Matthew
Brook

Christus in the Passions from Edinburgh to the Concertgebouw, and the bass on the Gramophone Award-winning Messiah.

Next · 30 October 2026Mass in B minorIrish Baroque Orchestra & Choir · Christ Church Cathedral

Introducing

Matthew Brook is a British bass-baritone celebrated for his Bach and Handel. He sings Christus in the Passions with ensembles from the Dunedin Consort to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, made his Paris Opéra debut in Ariodante, and sings on the Gramophone Award-winning recordings of Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem.

Biography & repertoire

Matthew Brook singing from a score, a violinist of the Irish Baroque Orchestra behind him

Performance diary

On stage

Full diary

30Oct · Fri20:00
Bach
Mass in B minor
Irish Baroque Orchestra & Choir
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
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31Oct · Sat19:30
Bach
Mass in B minor
Irish Baroque Orchestra & Choir
St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny
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13Nov · Fri19:30
Handel
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall (Filharmonia Narodowa), Warsaw
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14Nov · Sat18:00
Handel
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall (Filharmonia Narodowa), Warsaw
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Discography

On record

All recordings

Premio Abbiati

Purcell

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

as Aeneas

La Nuova Musica · David Bates

Pentatone, 2023

Gramophone Award

Handel

Handel: Messiah (Dublin Version, 1742)

Dunedin Consort & Players · John Butt

Linn, 2006

Handel

Handel: Messiah

The English Concert and Choir · John Nelson

Erato, 2023

Ethel Smyth

Smyth: Der Wald

as Peter

BBC Symphony Orchestra; BBC Singers · John Andrews

Resonus Classics, 2023

Matthew Brook as Claudio, draped in a barber’s cape and laughing, surrounded by fawning women in business suits

Matthew Brook, who turns anything he sings to gold
The Observer · Vaughan Williams: Sancta Civitas (Naxos CD)

Listen

The voice

From Handel: Acis and Galatea, Dunedin Consort & Players, John Butt (Linn, 2008)
From Handel: Acis and Galatea, Dunedin Consort & Players, John Butt (Linn, 2008)
From Bach: Mass in B minor (Rifkin edition), Dunedin Consort & Players, John Butt (Linn, 2010)
From Handel: Esther, Dunedin Consort, John Butt (Linn, 2012)