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Matthew Rose (bass) & Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Bayle Music
Saturday 21st February, 2026
3:00 pm
The Grand, The Leas, Folkestone, CT20 2XL
Concert
Matthew Rose (bass) and Anna Tilbrook (piano)
British bass Matthew Rose studied at the Curtis Institute of Music before becoming a member of the Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Matthew’s international career has seen him enjoy a close relationship with The Metropolitan Opera, for whom he gave his 100th performance in 2022. His roles there include Filippo II and Monk (Don Carlos), Raimondo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Claudio (Agrippina), Masetto and Leporello (Don Giovanni), Oroveso (Norma), Ashby (La Fanciulla del West), Talbot (Maria Stuarda), Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Night Watchman (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Frère Laurent (Roméo et Juliette)and Colline (La bohème).
The 2025/26 season includes Matthew’s return to Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, as Sarastro in The Metropolitan Opera’s beloved Holiday Presentation, and as the Speaker of the House for the Royal Ballet and Opera in London. Matthew also performs in Seattle Opera’s concert performances of Daphne as Peneios and with Sir Mark Elder in L’enfance du Christ at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía. In the summer of 2026, he returns to Grange Park Opera for the roles of Fasolt Das Rheingold and Philip II Don Carlo.
Passionate about music and vocal education, Matthew runs Folkestone on Song, an organisation that brings song and singing to Folkestone and East Kent via an international song festival, a bursary award for emerging artists, and a singing academy. He is also the co-director of the Spoleto Vocal Arts Workshop, in association with Mahler & LeWitt Studios and Vocal Masterclass Stockholm.
Anna Tilbrook is one of Britain’s most exciting pianists, with a considerable reputation in song recitals and chamber music. She made her debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1999 and has since become a regular performer at Europe’s major concert halls and festivals.
Anna has collaborated with many leading singers and instrumentalists including James Gilchrist, Lucy Crowe, Mary Bevan, Sophie Bevan, Barbara Hannigan, Willard White, Ashley Riches, Sir John Tomlinson, Roderick Williams, Matthew Rose, Ian Bostridge, Barbara Bonney, Christine Rice, Iestyn Davies, Natalie Clein, Guy Johnston, Sol Gabetta, Michael Collins, Nick Daniel, Emily Sun, Philip Dukes, Louisa Tuck, Jack Liebeck, Chloe Hanslip, Ben Goldscheider and Jess Gillam. For Welsh National Opera she has accompanied Angela Gheorghiu, Jose Carreras and Bryn Terfel in televised concerts.
Schubert Schwanengesang
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