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The Canadian baritone, Matthew Zadow, was born into an family of amateur singers and musicians; he studied piano, guitar, trombone and singing as a teenager, and was a frequent actor on the stage. Still he began his university studies in science, only switching to formal music study in his last year, when he began his vocal studies with fellow Canadian baritone Bruce Kelly, first at Queen's University in Kingston and subsequently in Toronto.
Since moving to Brussels, Matthew Zadow is enjoying a flourishing international career in recital, oratorio and opera, with recent debuts in Holland, Ireland and Belgium, interspersed with frequent Canadian performances. His recent opera roles include Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Dancaïre and Morales in Carmen, Baron Douphol in La Traviata, and Cristiano and Il Giudice in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera. Contemporary opera roles include Fellowship in The Summoning of Everyman, Hans Scholl in Die Weiße Rose, and Ben in Night-Blooming Cereus and he created of the role of Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest for Stratford Summer Music. Matthew Zadow appears on the Naxos CD release of Rameau’s Castor et Pollux and Toreador Records’ art song release “Magic Breath”. Operetta roles of note include Danilo in The Merry Widow, Bob Beckett in H.M.S. Pinafore and Pish-Tush in Mikado.
Matthew Zadow's recent stage roles include Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, General Boum in La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein, Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Dancairo in Carmen, Baron Douphol in La Traviata, Cristiano/Silvano in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera and Danilo in The Merry Widow. He created the roles of Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest for Stratford Summer Music, and Young Grandad in Juno-award winning composer John Burge’s The Auction for Canada’s Westben music festival, and gave the Toronto premiere of the role of Hans Scholl in Die Weisse Rose.
His Bach performances include the solo cantata Ich will den Kreutzstab gerne tragen (BWV 56), Magnificat (BWV 243), Mass in B minor (BWV 232), Himmelfahrts-Oratorium (BWV 11) with the Melos ensemble under
conductor David Cameron, Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248) with Toronto’s Stephanie Martin and Pax Christi Chorale, and Johannes-Passion (BWV 245) with Antwerp’s Jaak Gregoor and Vocaal Collectief. He has performed Bach Cantatas BWV 207 Vereinigtre Zweitracht der wechselnden Saiten and BWV 208 Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd! with Paul Van Loey and the Flanders Baroque Academie at Antwerp’s Sint-Carolus Borromeuskerk, Ich habe genug (BWV 82) at St. Andrew’s Church of Scotland, Brussels with Piers Maxim and with Brussels’ Choeur et Orchestre de la Chapelle des Minimes he has performed cantatas BWV 70 Wachet! betet! betet! Wachet! and BWV 90 Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende with Philippe Gérard; Ich will den Kreutzstab gerne tragen (BWV 56) with Jan Caals; and Bisher habt ihr nichts gebeten in meinem Namen (BWV 87) with Piers Maxim. In Toronto he performed Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248) and Cantata BWV 140 Wachet auf, ruft uns die stimme with conductor Howard Dyck and Toronto’s Pax Christi Chorale.
He has frequently performed many core works of the bass/baritone concert repertoire, from, including: Georg Frideric Handel’s Messiah, the Johannes Brahms, W.A. Mozart, G. Fauré, and Maurice Duruflé Requiem masses, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs and A Sea Symphony, J. Brahms’ Vier ernste Gesänge, Purcell’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Haydn's Die Schöpfung, Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah, and Edward Elgar’s Coronation Ode, Orff's Carmina Burana and Benjamin Britten’s Journey of the Magi. As a recitalist, he has given numerous performances of songs and song cycles such as Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin, Les nuits d’été by Berlioz, Don Quichotte à Dulcinée by Ravel, , R. Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel, Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach, Ned Rorem's War Songs, and Saariaho’s Nuits Adieux. He also has debuted in Holland and Belgium with the Flemish ensemble BL!NDMAN in concert performances of contemporary music.
Matthew Zadow’s 2010-2011 season began in October with the music of César Franck including the Messe à trois voix in Limbourg and Tervuren, and the Bach Cantatas BWV 207 Vereinigtre Zweitracht der wechselnden Saiten and BWV 208 Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd! with Paul Van Loey and the Flanders Baroque Academie at Antwerp’s Sint-Carolus Borromeuskerk. On November 11, he performed a commemorative concert with organist and pianist Piers Maxim, including music of S. Barber, J. Brahms, Fauré, Rorem, the Eleanor Daley setting of In Flanders Fields and excerpts from Ich habe genug (BWV 82) at St. Andrew’s Church of Scotland, Brussels. He then performed the cantatas BWV 70 Wachet! betet! betet! Wachet! and BWV 90 Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende with Philippe Gérard and Brussels’ Choeur et Orchestre de la Chapelle des Minimes before returning to Canada for Purcell’s Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day with the Melos Ensemble at St. George’s Cathedral, Kingston, followed by J.S. Bach’s Weihnachts-Oratorium (BWV 248) and Cantata BWV 140 Wachet auf, ruft uns die stimme in December for Howard Dyck and Toronto’s Pax Christi Chorale. In April 2011 he performed Messiah in Bornem, Willebroek and Sint-Niklaas, and in May sings a Canadian tour of Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin with the American pianist Dina Namer.
His 2011-2012 season includes Messiah in Brussels in October, followed by Ich will den Kreutzstab gerne tragen (BWV 56) with Jan Caals and Brussels’ Choeur et Orchestre de la Chapelle des Minimes. In November
he performs Orff's Carmina Burana with Stéphane Goemans and La chorale royale les chantres de Notre-Dame in Brussels, and in December appears as General Boum in the Brussels Operetta Theatre staging of Offenbach's La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein. In March he performs Raphael and Adam in Haydn's Creation in Kingston, followed by Die Schöne Müllerin in Waterloo, and a No Tenors Allowed opera excerpts concert in Ottawa, before returning for more performances of Haydn's Die Schöpfung in Antwerp's St. Paul's Church in April, and Die Schöne Müllerin in Brussels with Peter Tomek in May. His season ends in June 2012 with the role of Young Grandad in the premiere staging of John Burge’s The Auction for Canada's Westben music festival.
His 2012-2013 season will include Conte Almaviva (La Nozze di Figaro) with Opera Avanti, Die Schöne Müllerin, Messiah, the Puccini Messa di Gloria, the J. Brahms Requiem, his Matthäus-Passion (BWV 244) debut in Antwerp, his stage debut at Le Theatre Royale de La Monnaie as Commissionario (La Traviata), and Palais des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles debut in Carmina Burana. |
