Dr. Matthew Thompson

Artistic Director

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Matthew Thompson is Assistant Professor of Music - Voice & Opera at the University of Michigan School of Music Theatre & Dance.  Thompson teaches a wide variety of courses on topics of art song, diction, opera, and video game music.  

 

As a pianist, Dr. Thompson has appeared with operatic celebrities like Thomas Hampson, Golden Mask award winner Vince Yi, and Tony Award winner Gavin Creel.  Equally comfortable collaborating with instrumentalists, Thompson has performed on the Ann Arbor Symphony Chamber Music Series, the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings series and the Great Lakes Chamber Music Vignette series.  He has played with the Flint Symphony and Michigan Philharmonic, and was the pianist for the Carolyn Mawby Chorale for over a decade before taking the helm fully. Recent recordings include Japonica, Japanese composed oboe-piano music, Concerto Ludus, a piece for piano, Gameboy, and animation, and Four Psalms by Joseph Bayly and For the Piano by Marty O’Donnell, composer for the Halo and Destiny video game franchises.  

 

Thompson has recently become very involved in research regarding Korean art song.  This project has led to viral video performance clips— one alone garnering more than 2 million views— a website, KoreanArtSongResource.com, as well as a performance on a reality show, KoreaInvitesU.  

 

Dr. Thompson is delighted to be Artistic Director and Conductor for the Carolyn Mawby Chorale!