“Matthew Rose, though still quite a young man, cuts an imposing figure. He is tall and has genuine physical presence. His voice is a large one and he showed us that he is able to sing with great power, yet he uses this vocal power intelligently and is just as capable of scaling the voice down, according to the requirements of the music. This was an enjoyable and, indeed, exciting recital. Matthew Rose is the fortunate possessor of a very fine bass voice. He appears also to be a thoroughly musical and thoughtful singer and though there was a good deal of passion in his performances one felt always that the readings had been carefully considered.”
John Quinn, Seen and Heard Recital Review,

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MATTHEW ROSEBass

Iain BurnsidePianist
Songs and arias by composers including Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, Schubert, Liszt and Britten.

British bass Matthew Rose studied at Christ Church University, Canterbury and at the Curtis Institute of Music in the United States before becoming a member of the Young Artists’ Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In concert, his recent engagements have included appearances with the LSO with Sir Colin Davis and the SCO with Norrington and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Artist Biographies

MATTHEW ROSE

British bass Matthew Rose studied at Christ Church University, Canterbury and at the Curtis Institute of Music in the United States before becoming a member of the Young Artists’ Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

For the Royal Opera his roles have included Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Colline (La bohème), Masetto (Don Giovanni) and, in concert, Albert (La Juive).

In 2005 he made an acclaimed debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as Bottom for which he received the John Christie Award. Other appearances include Bottom at the Opera National de Lyon; Collatinus at the Teatro Réal in Madrid; Speaker (The Magic Flute) and Colline at the English National Opera and, for the Welsh National Opera, the Monk (Don Carlos) and Mozart’s Figaro. In the U.S. he has performed with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and for the Opera Festival of New Jersey.

His future engagements include Bottom at La Scala, Milan, and for Houston Grand Opera; Mozart’s Figaro in Lille; Polyphemus (Acis and Galatea) at Covent Garden; his role debut as Leporello (Don Giovanni) at Santa Fe and returns to the Glyndebourne Festival.

In concert, his recent engagements have included appearances with the LSO with Sir Colin Davis, Daniel Harding and Michael Tilson Thomas; the SCO with Norrington; the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Dresden Staatskapelle with Mackerras and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich with Dutoit.

In recital he has appeared at the Chester and Cheltenham International Festivals and he has performed Schubert’s ‘Schwanengesang’ with Malcolm Martineau at St John’s Smith Square and in Edinburgh.

His recordings include Der Steuermann (Tristan und Isolde) with Pappano; Ratcliffe (Billy Budd) with Harding and Bel Canto arias with Natalie Dessay and Evelino Pido for EMI; Mozart arias with the Classical Opera Company for Sony; Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ with Belohlávek and Tippett's ‘A Child of our Time’ and Berlioz’s ‘L’enfance du Christ’ with Sir Colin Davis for LSO Live.

He is the recipient of the Independent Opera/Wigmore Hall Fellowship.

Iain Burnside

A prominent pianist and an award-winning BBC Radio 3 broadcaster, Iain Burnside collaborates in concert and on CD with singers such as Ailish Tynan, Lisa Milne, Rebecca Evans, Joan Rodgers, Susan Gritton, Yvonne Kenny, Susan Bickley, Ann Murray, Sarah Connolly, John Mark Ainsley, Mark Padmore, Andrew Kennedy, Roderick Williams, Christopher Maltram and Bryn Terfel, and with actors such as Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell Beale.

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