Latest News & Updates From Matthew

Photo by Jenny Callan. Drogheda Classical Music. Irish Baroque Orchestra. Welcome to my website, Spring is well and truly here and I am already into the Passion Season having just returned from Ireland where I sang in two lovely performances of the Bach St Matthew Passion with Peter Whelan and his Irish Baroque Orchestra. I […]

It’s hard to believe this lovely film, Bach - Cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140 - Van Veldhoven, that we did a few years back now has had over 3.2 Million views! The power of the internet! So grateful for the Allofbach project. We are still planning to film more.

Welcome! As the world seems to move on from an international pandemic, we all take a big breath and look forward. The arts across the globe are struggling to make up for lost time, facing losses and massive cut backs, but they continue to fight on! I’m very grateful to have returned to work as […]

I am very glad to be getting back into regular working conditions after all the worrisome Covid lockdowns. It’s great to see fuller audiences, as confidence levels grow, at home and abroad. I had a very busy Easter 2022, with Passions, Cantatas, Apollo e Dafne, Haydn’s Creation and Seasons, Brahm’s Requiem and even a cheeky […]

Thanks to my agents at Rayfield Allied, Nicholas Maw, Katie Smart, Ben Rayfield and now Nicki Wenham. They have kept positive throughout this difficult period, and I am thankful for that. Please keep a look out for another recording that was released recently. It was a wonderful programme with the King’s Consort of Birthday Odes […]

As I type, I am thrilled to be able to tell you that my new recording of Bach Cantatas with Linn Records is number one in the specialist classical music charts! It features Cantata 82, Ich habe Genug. It was recorded during lockdown with the Dunedin Consort and John Butt. Feel free to buy a […]

After a busy Summer, singing the role of Aeneas in Errolyn Wallen’s new opera Dido’s Ghost at the Barbican London, Buxton International Festival and Edinburgh International Festival, I started the new season with two performances of “A View from the Villa” with Iain Burnside, Susan Bickley and Victoria Newlyn at the Rye Festival and Lammermuir […]

The Spring is filled with performances of Bach’s Passions in Quebec, Montreal, Carnegie Hall NYC, and London’s Barbican Centre. I have a Brahm’s Requiem in Cologne, several Creation’s in Boston Symphony Hall and a Summer of performances of Verdi’s Otello for Grange Park Opera in the role of Lodovico. I look forward to a performance […]