Up-and-coming bass Matt Mueller is garnering attention for his ‘larger-than-life’ stage presence and soulful interpretations across a diverse repertoire ranging from Monteverdi and Mozart to the vanguard of new music.

Matt’s recent successes include a stint as Fellow with the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute, where he had the opportunity to flex his comedic chops as the unbuttoned prison warden Frank in a new French language version of Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss) under the guidance of legendary Canadian director Lorraine Pintal. He further stretched his dramatic range with contrasting turns as Mustafà (L’Italiana in Algeri, Rossini) and Kofner (The Consul, Menotti), as part of a gala program, working closely with program Artistic Director and internationally distinguished performer Étienne Dupuis. This followed Matt’s prior excursion into comic light opera and music theatre, when he headlined as Artist-in-Residence with the Ohio Light Opera (Deadeye in H.M.S. Pinafore; Lancelot in Camelot).

Turning from the theater to the concert hall, Matt has embraced the classical sensibility in recent performances as bass soloist for Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (Orchestre de La Francophonie) and the Mozart Requiem (Musica Viva NY), as well as a program of Viennese classical music as part of the International Haydn Competition.

Matt’s persistent attraction to the frontier of classical music has manifested recent presentations of new and seldom-performed work, featuring in world-premiere productions Exagoge (Avner Finberg) and ICELAND (O-Lan Jones/Emmett Tinley) at La MaMa Experimental Theatre and Transgression (G. Janecek) at and Bluegrass Opera (KY), as well as a string of concert performances with Marshall Opera (NY) (Vayter un Vayter, Judith Shaytin) and dell’Arte Opera Ensemble (NY) (assorted works of Reinhold Glière and Mykola Lysenko).

Among Matt’s recent highlights are featured roles such as Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Arkel in Pelléas et Mélisande and Pluton in J.P. Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie, as well as appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Opera Theater and Florentine Opera.

Matt has had the privilege to perform under the direction of a number of essential and influential artists; standouts include Jaap van Zweden, Crystal Manich, and Joseph Rescigno, among many others.

In the current season, Matt continues to expand his repertoire in both the classical cannon and contemporary scene, adding roles from the likes of Bizet, Gounod, Mozart and Monteverdi to go along with premieres by a set of new music composers including Veljo Tormis, Reena Esmail, Don DiNicola, and Orlando Diaz. 

Matt did his graduate studies in voice at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Prior to that, he studied piano at the University of Oklahoma.