Tamara Matthews

Furman welcomes American soprano Tamara Matthews to the vocal faculty.  An active performer, Ms. Matthews performs a remarkably varied body of repertoire on opera and concert stages around the world. She has rapidly risen to international status with recent debuts in France, Spain, Israel, as well as major venues in the United States.  Possessing “ a glorious instrument, velvety and warm, glistening with light and dramatically forceful”, Ms. Matthews’ singing resulted in her acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut in 1994 as first prize winner of the Musica Sacra Bach Vocal Competition. Debuts this season include Royal Albert Hall (Proms) and the Edinburgh Festival with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem in the summer of 2003; a world premiere by Boston-based composer Charles Fussill with the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia in October; chamber music concerts on the Philadelphia Bach Festival Series in November 2003; and December engagements with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and with the National Symphony in Kennedy Center in December of 2003.

In addition to a busy performing career, Ms. Matthews teaches and conducts master classes regularly at festivals and seminars. She has participated on the faculties of both Swarthmore College and Westminster Choir College as a professor of voice. Visit the Telarc label web site for information on Ms. Matthew's latest CD project.

She may also be heard on the American Bach Soloists' Beethoven 9th CD release: http://americanbach.org/recordings/BeethovenNotes.htm

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