Matthew Markham (MIMF 2012~2013)
Baritone, Matthew Markham enjoys an active career on the operatic, concert, and recital stages. He has appeared on the operatic stage with Ash Lawn Opera, Janiec Opera, Spoleto Festival, New Jersey Opera, Manhattan Opera Theater of the French Institute Alliance Française in New York City, Da Ponte Concert Opera, Westminster Opera Theater, and Florida State Opera. Roles span Mozart through lyric French and English/American opera. This versatile artist is a frequent soloist in oratorio ranging Bach to Britten and has performed in prestigious concert venues including Suk Hall at the Rudolfinum in Prague, Czech Republic. An avid interpreter of art song, he has had the opportunity to work with musical luminaries Martin Katz, Graham Johnson, John Harbison, Jake Heggie, Ricky Ian Gordon and the late Craig Smith in performances at Songfest in Malibu, California. Dr. Markham has participated in master classes with Elly Ameling, Wolfgang Holzmair, Helmut Deutsch, Rudolf Jansen, Edith Wiens, Robert Tear and Jorma Hynninen at the Franz Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien, Austria. He has twice been selected to participate in the Baldwin-Wallace Art Song Festival in Ohio where he has worked with Warren Jones, François Le Roux, and Stephanie Blythe. He was named a Finalist in the Franco-American Vocal Academy French Art Song Competition held in Tribute to Gérard Souzay. He has been a competition winner of the Regional MacAllister Awards, State and Regional NATS Competitions, Westminster Choir College Graduate Voice Competition, and numerous Rotary Club sponsored competitions. Dr. Markham has been featured on a PBS Film Documentary sponsored by NATS and has recorded with the German label Classic Produktion Osnabrück.
In the fields of music research and vocal pedagogy, Dr. Markham has been the recipient of prestigious grants such as the national Theodore Presser Award for Graduate Research in Music and Florida State University grants including a Dissertation Research Award and the Glenys Gallaher Memorial Award. These grants have enabled him to conduct research on the vocal compositions of Czech composer Petr Eben culminating in his doctoral treatise “A Study of Písně z Těšínska of Petr Eben”. He has collaborated with Timothy Cheek in lecture recitals on this subject at the Fort Wayne Art Song Festival where he also served as guest artist/teacher, and for the International Czech Song and Aria Competition at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. As a pedagogue, Dr. Markham was chosen to be a 2008 NATS Intern where he presented lectures on art song repertory and pedagogy for the college level voice student. Previously, Dr. Markham maintained a large private studio and taught voice at the Purnell School in New Jersey. He has taught applied voice and assisted courses in song literature, diction, foreign language for singers, and vocal pedagogy at the Florida State University College of Music and has served a one-year term position on the voice faculty of the DePauw University School of Music where he taught applied voice and song literature.
Dr. Markham holds the Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from The Florida State University College of Music, Master of Music degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, and the Doctor of Music degree in Voice Performance from The Florida State University College of Music. He is an active member of NATS, NYSTA, College Music Society, and the Dvořák Society of London. He continues to teach at the Ameropa Solo and Chamber Music Festival in Prague, Czech Republic every summer. Dr. Markham joined the voice faculty of New York University in Fall 2010 and maintains a private studio in NYC.
In the fields of music research and vocal pedagogy, Dr. Markham has been the recipient of prestigious grants such as the national Theodore Presser Award for Graduate Research in Music and Florida State University grants including a Dissertation Research Award and the Glenys Gallaher Memorial Award. These grants have enabled him to conduct research on the vocal compositions of Czech composer Petr Eben culminating in his doctoral treatise “A Study of Písně z Těšínska of Petr Eben”. He has collaborated with Timothy Cheek in lecture recitals on this subject at the Fort Wayne Art Song Festival where he also served as guest artist/teacher, and for the International Czech Song and Aria Competition at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. As a pedagogue, Dr. Markham was chosen to be a 2008 NATS Intern where he presented lectures on art song repertory and pedagogy for the college level voice student. Previously, Dr. Markham maintained a large private studio and taught voice at the Purnell School in New Jersey. He has taught applied voice and assisted courses in song literature, diction, foreign language for singers, and vocal pedagogy at the Florida State University College of Music and has served a one-year term position on the voice faculty of the DePauw University School of Music where he taught applied voice and song literature.
Dr. Markham holds the Bachelor of Music degree in Voice Performance from The Florida State University College of Music, Master of Music degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, and the Doctor of Music degree in Voice Performance from The Florida State University College of Music. He is an active member of NATS, NYSTA, College Music Society, and the Dvořák Society of London. He continues to teach at the Ameropa Solo and Chamber Music Festival in Prague, Czech Republic every summer. Dr. Markham joined the voice faculty of New York University in Fall 2010 and maintains a private studio in NYC.
