Matthew Brook leapt to fame with his 2007 Gramophone Award-winning recording of Handel’s Messiah with the Dunedin Consort, followed by equally critically acclaimed recordings of Acis and Galatea and St Matthew Passion. He has appeared as a soloist throughout Europe, Australia, North and South America and the Far East, and has worked with many of the world’s leading conductors. He has developed a world-wide reputation for his interpretation of the music of J.S Bach and George Frederic Handel but his musical tastes stretch far beyond this, often performing new commissions.

Recent highlights include the role of Aeneas in the world premiere of Errollyn Wallen’s Dido’s Ghost co-commissioned by the Dunedin Consort with the Barbican Centre, Edinburgh International Festival, Buxton International Festival and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale, a return to the BBC Proms for Bach’s B minor Mass with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Messiahs with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, English Chamber Orchestra and Music of the Baroque Chicago, Haydn’s The Creation with both the AAM and Handel and Haydn Society Boston and Bach’s St Matthew Passion with Orchestra of St Luke’s at Carnegie Hall and with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.

This season, Matthew sings Bach Cantatas in a return to Les Violons du Roy in Quebec, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Orchestre National de Lyon, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Coro e Orquestra Gulbenkian, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Royal Philharmonic, the role of Christus in Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Haydn’s Creation in a return to Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Handel Odes with Orchestra of St Luke’s, and Tippett’s A Child of Our Time with BBC SO under Sir Andrew Davies.  

Matthew has an extensive discography having recorded for EMI/Virgin, Chandos, Hyperion, Naxos, Linn and Delphian. His most recent recording Bach: Ich habe genug with the Dunedin Consort for the Linn label won the choral award in the 2022 BBC Music Magazine Awards.