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Reflections in Music returns to The Church with internationally acclaimed basso Matthew Rose. The Metropolitan Opera singer will perform Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise and will be joined by pianist Bènèdicte Jourdois.
Join us for an unforgettable performance that reverberates in The Church’s vaulted corridors as Rose sings the story about a traveler heading out on a solitary journey through the snow in winter to come to terms with the loss of a great love.
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MATTHEW ROSE
Bass
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British bass Matthew Rose studied at the Curtis Institute of Music before becoming a member of the Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 2006 Matthew made an acclaimed debut at the Glyndebourne Festival as Bottom in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – for which he received the John Christie Award– and he has since sung the role at La Scala, Covent Garden, Opéra National de Lyon, Houston Grand Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Matthew’s international career has seen him enjoy a close relationship with the Metropolitan Opera, for whom he gave his 100th performance in 2022. For The Met, Matthew has sung Filippo II and Monk Don Carlos, Raimondo Lucia di Lammermoor, Claudio Agrippina, Masetto and Leporello Don Giovanni, Oroveso Norma, Ashby La Fanciulla del West, Talbot Maria Stuarda, Bottom A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Night Watchman Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Frère Laurent Roméo et Juliette and Colline La bohème.
The 2024/25 season includes a return to the role of Fasolt in Das Rheingold for the Bayerische Staatsoper, and performances of Rocco in Fidelio with the Opéra National de Bordeaux.
On the concert platform, Matthew sings Bruckner's Mass No. 3 with the SWR Symphonieorchester, Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and returns to Winterreise in performances across the United Kingdom.
In concert Matthew has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, BBC Proms and the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. His engagements include the London Symphony Orchestra with Sir Colin Davis, Daniel Harding and Michael Tilson Thomas, the Philadelphia Orchestra with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Gustavo Dudamel, the Staatskapelle Dresden with Sir Charles Mackerras, the New York Philharmonic with Manfred Honeck, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Sir Antonio Pappano, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra with Kent Nagano, the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Vladimir Jurowski & Edward Gardner, the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Charles Dutoit, the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Sir Andrew Davis, Edward Gardner, Jiří Bělohlávek and Marc Minkowski, the Rotterdam Philharmonic with Richard Egarr, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin with Kent Nagano and the Wiener Konzerthaus with Pablo Heras-Casado.
Recordings include a critically acclaimed Winterreise with pianist Gary Matthewman, Schwanengesang with Malcolm Martineau (Stone Records) and Arias for Benucci with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen (Hyperion).
BÉNÉDICTE JOURDOIS
Pianist
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French pianist and vocal coach Bénédicte Jourdois is a member of the Metropolitan Opera music staff and teaches and coaches at the Juilliard School and the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. With Steven Blier, she co-directs the Schwab Vocal Rising Stars program at Caramoor.
Ms Jourdois has performed in numerous venues in Europe and in the United States, including Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. As a coach and pianist, she has worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Opera, Chicago Lyric Ryan Opera Center, Chicago Opera Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera, Washington National Opera, Washington Concert Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Palm Beach Opera, Opera Saratoga, Rice University, the Chautauqua Institution voice program, the Castleton Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and Carnegie Hall’s SongStudio. She was previously a faculty member at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and at the Manhattan School of Music.
Born in Paris, Ms Jourdois holds degrees from the Conservatoire National de Region de Saint-Maur, the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Lyon, Mannes College, and the Juilliard School and is a graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at The Metropolitan Opera.