Field
of Study: Voice
Education:
A.B., Princeton University; studies with Shirlee Emmons, Conrad L. Osborne
(NYC); Alexander Technique Center at Cambridge, teacher certification,
1998; Certificate in Counseling Psychology, Lesley University.
Biographical
Information: Performs in opera, concert, recital, recording;
she has sung Gilda in “Rigoletto,” Euridice in “Orfeo
ed Euridice,” Susanna
in “Marriage
of Figaro,” Marie in “Bartered Bride,” Gretel in “Hansel
and Gretel,”
Nannetta in “Falstaff,” Musetta in “La Bohème,”
Violetta in “La
Traviata.”
With the Boston Academy of Music: “Arabella” (named by
Richard Dyer in The Boston Globe as “Best of Boston 1998”), “Vanessa,” “Il
Trittico.”
Performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Atlanta, Detroit,
Cincinnati, Houston, Utah, New Jersey, and Baltimore symphonies, Buffalo
Philharmonic,
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Prague Autumn Music Festival, Stuttgart
Philharmonic in Germany, New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, 92nd St.
Y Chamber Symphony. Worked with Sir Neville Marriner, Hugh Wolff, Charles
Dutoit, Robert Shaw, Dennis Russell Davies, Rafael Frühbeck de
Burgos, Neeme Järvi, and Gerard Schwarz
Recordings: Handel’s
operas “Siroe,” “Muzio,” “Berenice”;
Victor Herbert songs with orchestra,
“Thine Alone,” Ned
Rorem’s “Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters,” all
on Newport Classic. Vaughan Williams’ “Serenade to Music”
on Vox Cum Laude, Johannes Somary’s
“Songs of Innocence” on Premier, Handel’s “Tolomeo” on
Vox Classic. Also Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa” on Naxos
and Debussy’s “Pelléas
et Mélisande” on Arsis.
Professional
Affiliations: Certified teacher of
the Alexander Technique, editor of “ExChange, the journal of Alexander
Technique International.” Faculty member at Wellesley College.
Website: http://www.andreamatthews.com/index.html
Photo by
Lisa Kohler.
