Swiss Global Artistic Foundation

Tenor Matthew Garrett is a 2005 graduate of the prestigious Juilliard Opera Center in New York City. The 2007-2008 season's engagements include Ernesto (Don Pasquale) with Syracuse Opera, Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) with Connecticut Opera, Apollo (Orfeo) with Glimmerglass Opera, Zen (What Next?) with Miller Theater at Columbia University, the Evangelist (St. Matthew Passion) with the Grand Tour Orchestra, tenor soloist (Verdi Requiem) with the Ashland Symphony, tenor soloist with the AXIOM Ensemble under James Conlon, and participation in the Jours des Arts Music Festival in Montreux, Switzerland.

The 2008-2009 season already includes Paolino (Il Matrimonio Segreto) with Scottish Opera, Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni) with Eugene Opera, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte) with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, and Zadok (Solomon) with the Berkshire Choral Festival.

Highlights of the past season included Der Soldat (Der Kaiser von Atlantis) with Houston Grand Opera, Iago (cover; Rossini Otello) with Opera Orchestra of New York, the Evangelist (St. John Passion) with the Grand Tour Orchestra, and as tenor soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall with the National Chorale, Honegger's Le Roi David at Carnegie Hall with the Oratorio Society of New York, and Bach's St. John Passion with the Arion Ensemble under Bernard Labadie. A particular highlight last winter, Mr. Garrett was a featured soloist with the Basel Festival Orchestra in Switzerland.

Additional past engagements for the New Jersey native include performances with Chicago Opera Theater, Cincinnati May Festival, Opera Omaha, Merola Opera Center, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Las Vegas Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, 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), 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 Nights 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 Bachelors 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.