Matthew Anderson has been praised for the warm tenor voice and polished musicality he brings to the repertoire of oratorio, opera, and musical theater.
Mr. Anderson was the 2nd Prize winner in the 2010 Oratorio Society of New York Solo Competition. He has also been a prizewinner in the American Bach Society Vocal Competition and a finalist in the Liederkranz Art Song Competition. He sings regularly as a soloist in Boston's renowned Emmanuel Music Bach Cantata Series and has appeared as a soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society, Carmel Bach Festival, Cantata Singers, Back Bay Chorale, Musicians of the Old Post Road, Williamstown Early Music, Masterworks Chorale, Musica Maris, and Boston Modern Orchestra Project.
He has appeared recently in Act III of Wagner's Die Meistersinger at Tanglewood, conducted by James Levine; Carousel (as Mr. Snow), A Richard Rogers Celebration, and An Evening of Cole Porter at Boston Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops conducted by Keith Lockhart; Bach's Saint Matthew Passion at the Aldeburgh Festival, conducted by Masaaki Suzuki; Stravinsky's Renard at Tanglewood, directed by Mark Morris; Haydn's Creation with Emmanuel Music; John Harbison's Winter's Tale with Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Britten's Saint Nicolas with the chorus and orchestra of New England Conservatory; Stravinksy's Pulcinella and Britten's Serenade with Discovery Ensemble; and Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, Handel's Israel in Egypt, and Matthew Locke's The Mask of Orpheus at the Carmel Bach Festival.
Mr. Anderson was Virginia Best Adams Fellow at the Carmel Bach Festival. In addition, he has 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. He also spent two seasons as a vocal fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and was a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow with Emmanuel Music.
Mr. Anderson studied Classics at Harvard University and voice at the New England Conservatory.