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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.
Matthew Zadow is fast developing an international singing career. Since moving to Brussels, he has debuted in Belgium, Ireland and Holland while maintaining his Canadian career in recital, oratorio and on stage. 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.
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 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. Most recently 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.
Other concert works include George 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, Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah, and Edward Elgar’s Coronation Ode. 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, and Ned Rorem's War Songs. 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. |
