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The Canadian counter-tenor, Matthew White, graduated in English Literature at McGill University and currently studies with Jan Simons. He has recently won the Canada Council Grant for Emerging Artists and is a recipient of the Adams Vocal Fellowship at the Carmel Bach Festival.
Matthew White has already gained an enviable reputation for excellence in a young career and his ever-expanding career includes appearances woldwide. In Europe, he sings with the Netherlands Bach Society (with whom he sang Bach's St Matthew Passion (BWV 244)), the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Le Parlement de Musique and Le Concert Spirituel. In the USA he sings regularly with the Portland Baroque Orchestra and the Four Nations Ensemble and has traveiled as far afield as New Zealand to appear with the Christchurch City Choir in Händei's Messiah. In opera, his roles include Ottone in L'lncoronazione di Poppea for the Houston Grand Opera and the Toronto Consort, Monteverdi's Orfeo for the Toronto Consort, Hercules in Händel's The Choice Of Hercules for Modem Baroque Opera and the title role in Gluck's Orfeo for the Festival International de Musique Baroque de Lameque. Matthew White tours, records and performs frequently with Toronto's Tafelmusik Baroque Ensemble, and other leading early music ensembles. A proven performer in Canada, he has also appeared with the Vancouver Chamber Choir, the Edmonton Symphony, Thirteen Strings of Ottawa, the Chamber Music Festival and Symphony Nova Scotia, among many others. He is a founder member of Montreal's Ensemble Les Voix Baroques.
Matthew White has recorded Händel's Messiah with Tafelmusik/ Ivars Taurins for CBC Records; Carrissimi's Jepthe and Jonas with the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal for Analekta; His recordings include Messiah with Tafelmusik and Bach Cantatas with Aradia Ensemble.
Matthew White's future engagements Messiah with the New Zealand Chamber Orchestra/Brian Law, Händel with the Portland Baroque Orchestra/ Paul Goodwin, Dido And Aeneas with Les Concerts Spirituel/ Hervé Niquet in France with a recording for Naxos, Bach Cantatas with Tafelmusik, Bach's B Minor Mass (BWV 232) with the Orchestre Symphonique de Laval/ Jean-Francois Riveste, the St Matthew Passion (BWV 244) with the Niagara Symphony Orchestra /Robert Cooper, and with the Netherlands Bach Society/Jos Van Veldhoven. He will extend his opera work singing Gluck's Orfeo Ed Euridice at the Festival International de Lamèque and roles in Poppea for Houston Grand Opera. |
