American Bass, Matthew Curran, has garnered attention internationally with  his imposing voice  and authoritative presence suitable in a broad range of repertoire, including roles such as Figaro, Colline, Sarastro, Frère Laurent, Sparafucile and Gremin, while pursuing contemporary and lesser-known works such as Britten's Gloriana, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Rape of Lucretia, Lieberman's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Tarik O’Regan’s Heart of Darkness, and Christopher Berg’s Cymbeline.  . 

Critics have described him as having “the voice of a poet,” and a sound “that is confident and comes with a twinkle.”

Recent appearances include the Castleton Festival in The Beggar’s Opera asMat of the Mint, conducted by Lorin Maazel , as a soloist with the American Symphony Orchestraa Mendelssohn’s St. Paul,  Inspector Watts in a concert reading of Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Stephen Schwartz, Edwin Cheney in Shining Brow, by Daron Hagen, withe the Buffalo Philharmonic, recently released on the Naxos label.   He has also been a regular singer with various works in development with American Opera Projects as well as being a resident singer for their Composer and the Voice workshop for three seasons.  Next season, he will debut with The Atlanta Opera as Colline in La Boheme.

A cum laude graduate of the Loyola University New Orleans School of Music, he received his Master's degree at the prestigious Indiana University School of Music, which led him to being immediately accepted into the Seattle Opera's young artist program where he sang Colline in La Bohème, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola and Zaretsky in Eugene Onegin on the main stage.  Following Seattle he furthered his training at the International Opera Studio in Zurich singing Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Macrobio in Rossini's La Pietra del Paragone, and Max Hammer in Der Musikfeind along with numerous smaller roles on the Main stage along side many of the world’s top names.  He has performed with Seattle Opera, Zürich Opera, Opera New Jersey, New Orleans Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Central City Opera, Skagit Opera, Washington East Opera, Center City Opera Theater, and Opera Company of Brooklyn, among others.