Matthew Garrett is a recent graduate of the prestigious Juilliard Opera Center

in New York City. Highlights of the 2004-2005 season for the New Jersey

native include debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and New World

Symphony, performing Soldat in Der Kaiser von Atlantis under James Conlon,

and the Opera Orchestra of New York as Harry in La Fanciulla del West the

latter engagement marking his Carnegie Hall debut. His roles with Juilliard

this year are Le Petit Vieillard in L'Enfant et les Sortilèges and Jenik in The

Bartered Bride. This past summer, he performed Don Basilio in Le Nozze di

Figaro at San Francisco Opera's Merola Center. This season includes the role

of Belmonte in The Abduction from the Seraglio with the Israel Chamber

Orchestra, Pedrillo in the same work with Chicago Opera Theater and for the

Cincinnati May Festival, the roles of The Leader and The Sailer in a double

bill of The Padlock and Dido and Aeneas for Chicago Opera Theatre, and the

role of Sam Sharkey in Paul Bunyan with Opera Omaha.

On the concert stage, Mr. Garrett has appeared at in recital at New York's

Merkin Concert Hall this past October in a program that included Britten's

Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings. He returned to New York's Church of

St. Ignatius Loyola in March to solo in Bach's St. John Passion. In May, Mr.

Garrett will appear astenor soloist in Carmina Burana with the Las Vegas

Philharmonic and with the Monmouth Symphony of New Jersey. Next season

includes an engagement with the New York Festival of Song.

Past awards include First Prize in the NYSTA David Adams Art Song

Competition, Second Prize in the 2004 Young Concert Artists International

Competition, and Second Prize in the Eastern Regional Finals of the 2004

National Council Auditions for the Metropolitan Opera. He was also a 2005

National Semifinalist at the Houston Grand Opera Starquest Competition, and

a finalist at the Oratorio Society of New York solo competition.

Mr. Garrett recently made his debut at Glimmerglass Opera as the 2nd

Malingerer in The Good Soldier Schweik (later broadcast on National Public

Radio). Other operatic performances include Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte), the

Prologue (The Turn of the Screw), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), the wistful John

Styx (Orphee aux Enfers), Little Bat (Susannah), and Lysander and Flute (A

Midsummer Night's Dream). In 2002 Mr. Garrett covered the Tenor Soloist in

the new production of Rodion Shchedrin's concert opera The Enchanted

Wanderer with the New York Philharmonic, under the baton of Lorin Maazel.

His recent concert experience also includes leading solos in Bach's B-minor

Mass with the Church of St. Ignatius-Loyola, Orff's Carmina Burana with the

Brooklyn Conservatory Orchestra, Haydn's Theresienmesse with Central City

Orchestra and Chorus, Beethoven's Mass in C with the Juilliard Choral Union,

Mozart's Requiem with the Brown University Singers, and Mozart's Zaide with

BachWorks. As a recitalist he has performed Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin

in Lincoln Center. Future enagements include Ernesto with Opera Syracuse,

Belmonte with Connecticut Opera and Zen in Eliot Carter’s What Next? at the

Miller Theater, New York.

Matthew Garrett is a long-standing Teaching Fellow in the Ear Training

Department at the Juilliard School and also has served at the Metropolitan

Opera as a music theory teacher to the Lindemann Young Artist Development

Program. Originally trained as an orchestral conductor, he received a

Bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1999, as well as the coveted

Madeira Prize and Ron Nelson Prize for musical excellence. He earned a

Masters degree in Voice from the Juilliard School in 2003.

 

MATTHEW GARRETT

Vocal Category: Tenor

Representation: Europe (various)

Scottish Opera, Il Matrimonio Segretto

Tenor Matthew Garrett sang Paolino with a

blend of sincerity and charm

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