• Matthew Carey voice baritone

    Matthew Carey, baritone

    Matt has been a member of the voice faculty at Arkansas State University since 1997. In addition to applied voice, he also teaches Lyric Diction for Singers, Vocal Pedagogy and Song Literature. He has been the music director and conductor for the ASU Theater Department's Musical and has co-hosted the College of Fine Arts radio program "Spotlight on the Arts" on public radio NPR affiliate KASU 91.9 FM. Matt has sung with opera companies throughout the United States as well as Germany, and his leading roles include Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, Wolfram in Tannhäuser, Valentin in Faust, Figaro in Barbiere di Seviglia, Taddeo in La Cenerentola, Alfonso in La Favorita, Heerufer in Lohengrin, Lescaut in Manon, Marcello and Colline in La Bohème, Ford in Falstaff, Silvio in I Pagliacci and Don Giovanni. Matt has performed with the symphony orchestras of Hamburg, Kotka (Finland), Santa Barbara, the NDR Orchester of Bremen, the Delta Symphony Orchestra and the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. In concert, he has performed Carmina Burana, Messiah, The Creation, Elijah, the Requiems of Mozart, Brahms and Fauré, Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan-Williams), Old American Songs(Copland) and Drum Taps (Richard Pearson Thomas).

    Matt is a prolific recitalist, performing all styles of song literature, and specializing in songs cycles. Most recently, he toured of Schubert’s Die Winterreise in Alabama. He has conducted Vocal Master Classes throughout Arkansas, as well as Louisiana and Alabama. Along with his colleagues, Marika Kyriakos, Kristen Sullivan and Sandra Seay, he conducts a weekly Studio Class open to all voice students. He is a regular adjudicator at State and Regional NATS competitions, where his students frequently reach the Finals, as well as other local and regional competitions. Matt continues to perform in opera, recital and concert both at A-State and around the country.

    For the last 10 years, Matt has been a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist, specializing in Singing Voice Therapy- the habilitation of the injured singing voice. In the Fall of 2014, in collaboration with A-State Assistant Professor of Communication Disorders Shanon Brantley, Matt conducted a 30 day pilot study examining the effectiveness of two different types of vocal exercises. More recently, he has been presenting The Singer’s Preventative Maintenance Program at universities in Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama and New Jersey.