Swiss Global Artistic Foundation

The tenor Matthew Garrett is a 2005 graduate of the prestigious Juilliard Opera Center in New York City. In the 2009-2010 season, he will serve as tenor soloist in Mendelssohn's Paulus at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York, Mozart’s Mass in C minor at Carnegie Hall with Musica Sacra, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Orff’s Carmina Burana at Avery Fisher Hall with the National Chorale, Handel’s Messiah with the Syracuse Symphony, the premiere of John Tavener’s Requiem at St. Ignatius Loyola, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Berkshire Choral Festival, Carmina Burana with the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, CPE Bach’s Auferstehung und Himmelfaht Jesu with the Grand Tour Orchestra, and as recitalist in the Jours des Arts festival in Montreux, Switzerland.

Highlights of last year’s season include Paolino (Il Matrimonio Segreto) with Scottish Opera, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) with Eugene Opera, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) with the Ann Arbor Symphony, and as tenor soloist in: Messiah with the Virginia Symphony, Das Lied von der Erde with the Brooklyn Symphony, Handel’s La Resurrezione with the Grand Tour Orchestra, Handel’s Solomon with the Berkshire Choral Festival, and St Matthew Passion with the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola.

Additional past engagements for the New Jersey native include performances with Houston Grand Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, Cincinnati May Festival, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Omaha, Connecticut Opera, Syracuse Opera, Merola Opera Center, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Opera Orchestra of New York at Carnegie Hall, New World Symphony, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Basel Festival Orchestra, Arion Ensemble in Montreal, National Chorale at Avery Fisher Hall, Miller Theater at Columbia University, and at New York’s Church of St. Ignatius Loyola on Park Avenue. He has presented solo recitals in Merkin Hall and Paul Hall in New York, including a complete Die Schöne Müllerin of Schubert.

Mr Garrett was recently a World Finalist in the Montreal International Musical Competition. Other awards include 2nd Prize in the Young Concert Artists International Competition, 2nd Prize in the Eastern Regional Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, 2nd Prize in the Dupont Voice Competion at Opera at Florham, and encouragement prizes from Opera Index, the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation, and the Giulio Gari Foundation.

Operatic performances include Ferrando (Cosi fan tutte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Belmonte and Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Don Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro), Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Jenik (The Bartered Bride), Imeneo (Imeneo), Soldat (Der Kaiser von Atlantis), Sam Sharkey (Paul Bunyan), Le Petit Vieillard (L'Enfant et les Sortilèges), Harry (La Fanciulla del West), the Prologue (Turn of the Screw), the wistful John Styx (Orphée aux Enfers), Little Bat (Susannah), Gomatz (Zaide), and Lysander and Flute (A Midsummer Night's Dream).

Past teaching engagements include three years as a Teaching Fellow in the Ear Training Department at the Juilliard School, and 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.