Matthew Garrett has attracted attention among conductors and directors as a versatile singing actor with considerable musical intelligence that affords him an active career both in opera and concert..  On stage, he has appeared as Belmonte in The Abduction from the Seraglio with the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Connecticut Opera, Pedrillo in the same work with Chicago Opera Theater and for the Cincinnati May Festival, Ernesto in Don Pasquale for Syracuse Opera, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni Eugene Opera,  the roles of The Leader and The Sailer in a double bill of The Padlock and Dido and Aeneas for Chicago Opera Theatre, and the role of Sam Sharkey in Paul Bunyan with Opera Omaha.  Other notable appearances include the role of  Zen in Elliot Carter’s What Next at the Miller Theater at Columbia University., the Soldier in Der Kaiser von Atlantis with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and New World Symphony under James Conlon, and the Opera Orchestra of New York as Harry in La Fanciulla del West, Don Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro with San Francisco Opera’s Merola Center and, with Glimmerglass Opera, the 2nd Malingerer in The Good Soldier Schweik and Monteverdi’s Orfeo. In Europe, he has appeared as Paulino in Il Matrimonio Segreto with the Scottish Opera.

On the concert stage, Mr. Garrett has appeared with the Virginia Symphony in Handel’s Messiah,  Las Vegas Philharmonic, Monmouth Symphony of New Jersey, and Brooklyn Conservatory as tenor soloist in Carmina Burana, Berkshire Choral Festival for Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Juilliard Choral Union for Beethoven’s Mass in C, Central City Orchestra for Haydn’s Theresienmesse , Brown University Singers for Mozart’s Requiem, in recital for the New York Festival of Song, at New York’s Merkin Concert Hall in a program that included Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola for Bach’s B-minor Mass and the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music for  Bach’s St. John Passion, Last season included his concert debut in Europe with the Basel Festival Orchestra under the auspices of the Swiss Global Cultural Foundation.

This season includes performances of Carmina Burana for the Tulsa Opera, Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic, and the National Chorale, Mendelssohn’s St. Paul with the Oratorio Society of New York, Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the Berkshire Choral Festival and Handel’s Messiah with the Syracuse Symphony.

Past awards include First Prize in the NYSTA David Adams Art Song Competition, Second Prize in the 2004 Young Concert Artists International Competition, and Second Prize in the Eastern Regional Finals of the 2004 National Council Auditions for the Metropolitan Opera.  He was also a 2005 National Semifinalist at the Houston Grand Opera Starquest Competition, and a finalist at the Oratorio Society of New York solo competition.