Matthew Brook

Bass/Baritone

Matthew Brook has appeared widely as a soloist, and has worked extensively with conductors such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Richard Hickox, Sir Charles Mackerras, Harry Christophers, Christophe Rousset, Paul McCreesh and Sir Mark Elder.

Recent and future highlights include Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Dido and Aeneas with the Handel and Haydn Society; Bach’s St. John Passion with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; Haydn’s Creation with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Bach’s Magnificat and Brahms’ Triumphlied with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Il Re di Scozia in Ariodante with the Staatstheater Stuttgart and on tour with The English Concert; Bach’s B minor Mass at the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut and with Les Violons du Roy in Québec; Fauré’s Requiem with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Mozart’s Requiem with the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw; a tour of Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner, and with the Nederlandse Bachvereniging and Early Music Vancouver; a tour of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and with Gli Angeli Genève; Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra; Tippett’s A Child of Our Time at Festival St. Denis; the roles of Herod and Father in Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis; Argante in Rinaldo with Opéra de Oviedo; and Claudio in Agrippina with Teatro de la Maestranza.

On the concert platform, notable performances include Brahms’ Requiem with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic; Bach’s B Minor Mass and Haydn’s Harmoniemesse with the Dresden Staatskapelle; Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with Richard Hickox; Nielsen’s Symphony No. 3 with the Hallé Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder; Bach’s Mass in B minor and St. Matthew Passion with Collegium Vocale Gent and Philippe Herreweghe; Bach’s St. John Passion with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Oleg Caetani; Bach Cantatas with Marcus Creed and the Tonhalle-Orchester, Zurich; Elijah at the Three Choirs Festival with the Philharmonia Orchestra; and Handel’s Apollo e Dafne with Retrospect Ensemble and Matthew Halls at Wigmore Hall.

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