Matthew Rose, photo courtesy the artist; Brian Zeger, photo by Jared Slater
Tickets
$30
Reflections in Music returns to The Church with internationally acclaimed basso Matthew Rose. The singer, who performs frequently in great opera houses of the world, including over 100 performances to date with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, will fill The Church’s vaulted hall with the melancholy beauty of Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise. He will be joined by distinguished pianist Brian Zeger.
Join us for an unforgettable performance as Rose sings the poetic tale of 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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Reflections in Music, under the leadership of artistic director Bruce Wolosoff, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that hopes to bring classical music appreciation to new audiences and spark new ways of thinking about and engaging with the classical music experience for those who are already music lovers. For more information, visit reflectionsinmusic.org
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, a performance for which he received the John Christie Award, and 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 career is truly international but has been highlighted by a close relationship with the Metropolitan Opera, for whom he gave his 100th performance in 2022. For the Met, Matthew has sung Filippo II in Don Carlos, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Claudio in Agrippina, Masetto and Leporello in Don Giovanni, Oroveso in Norma, Ashby in La Fanciulla del West, Talbot in Maria Stuarda, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Night Watchman in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Frère Laurent in Roméo et Juliette, and Colline in La bohème.
His 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).
BRIAN ZEGER
Pianist
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Widely recognized as one of today’s leading collaborative pianists, Brian has performed with many of the world’s greatest singers including Marilyn Horne, Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, René Pape, Frederica von Stade, Bryn Terfel, Piotr Beczala, Denyce Graves, and Adrianne Pieczonka in an extensive concert career that has taken him to the premiere concert halls throughout the United States and abroad.
His recent recordings include Gathering: Songs by Ben Moore, featuring an exceptional array of opera and Broadway stars; All Who Wander, a recital disc with Jamie Barton; Preludios, Spanish songs with Isabel Leonard; a recording of Strauss and Wagner lieder with Adrianne Pieczonka; Dear Theo: 3 Song Cycles by Ben Moore with Paul Appleby, Susanna Phillips, and Brett Polegato; and A Lost World: Schubert Songs and Duets with Susanna Phillips and Shenyang, all for the Delos label.
Some of his critical essays and other writings have appeared in Opera News, The Yale Review, and Chamber Music magazine. He has made frequent appearances on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts both on The Opera Quiz and as intermission host and performer, and has the distinction of creating, narrating, and performing in five intermission features devoted to art song, a first in the long history of the Met broadcasts.
In addition to his distinguished concert career, he serves as artistic director of the Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at the Juilliard School. Previously, he also served for eight years as the executive director of the Metropolitan Opera
Lindemann Young Artists Development Program, and for many seasons as the director of the vocal program at the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival.
More information about Mr. Zeger’s activities can be found on his website, www.brianzeger.com.