Matthew Brook Bass baritone

Matthew Brook has performed all over Europe, Australia, North and South America, Far East, and has worked with conductors such as Andrew Davis, Harry Bicket, Bernard Labadie, Christophe Rousset, John Nelson, John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe, John Butt, Harry Christophers, Paul McCreesh, Charles Mackerras, Roger Norrington and Richard Hickox.

He has also collaborated with Richard Tognetti, Sir Mark Elder, Emmanuelle Haïm, Laurence Equilbey, Maxim Emelyanchev, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and Christian Curnyn. Recent seasons’ highlights include Aeneas in Errollyn Wallen’s Dido's Ghost, commissioned by the Dunedin Consort and Barbican Centre in London, Handel’s Messiah with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Music of the Baroque in Chicago, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with Handel and Haydn Society in Boston, Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Orchestra of St Luke's at the Carnegie Hall. He was also invited to return to the BBC Proms to perform Bach’s Mass in B minor.

During the 2022/23 season, Matthew Brook is singing Bach’s Cantatas with the Violons du Roy in Québec, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Orchestre national de Lyon, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with the Gulbenkian Chorus and Orchestra, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Matthew Brook’s wide discography includes most recent recordings such as Bach’s Ich habe genug with the Dunedin Consort for Linn, which won the 2022 BBC Music Magazine Awards in the Choral category. Other recordings include Handel’s Messiah, Acis and Galatea and St Matthew Passion.

Paris Opera debut