Matthew Kofi Waldren is a conductor of mixed British and Ghanaian ancestry, who is renowned for his detailed, responsive and collaborative approach to music-making. ENO Mackerras Fellow (2016-18) and nominated at the International Opera Awards (2017), he is recognised for an innate sense of theatre, and has established himself as one of the UK’s foremost opera conductors, equally at home in the concert hall, recording studio and theatre pit.
Previously for ENO: Paul Bunyan, The Marriage of Figaro, as assistant conductor: The Barber of Seville, La bohème and Don Giovanni.
Career Highlights
Previously nominated at the International Opera Awards, Matthew Kofi Waldren is co-founder of Your Turn Collective, and a member of the Creative Council of City of London Sinfonia with whom he also regularly appears in opera and in concert. Recent and future engagements include Ainadamar, Migrations (world premiere) (WNO), Blue (British premiere, nominated at the Black British Theatre Awards), Paul Bunyan (nominated at the Olivier Awards), Le nozze di Figaro (ENO), Les pêcheurs de perles, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Lakmé, La bohème, La rondine, La traviata, Un ballo in maschera and Tosca (OHP),The Pearl Fishers, La bohème, Don Giovanni, La petite bohème (Opera North), Il barbiere di Siviglia, L’elisir d’amore, La Cenerentola (West Green House Opera), I due Foscari (COG), Flight, Gianni Schicchi, Les Mamelles de Tirésias (RCS Opera), The Snow Maiden (RNCM Opera), Pelléas et Mélisande (Scottish Opera), Texting Heer (Royal Opera R&D), and concerts and recordings with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Orchestra of WNO, RPO, CBSO, LPO, City of London Sinfonia, and Chineke! Orchestra – including a forthcoming disc of Grant Still’s Symphony No. 1 and Price’s Symphony No. 3.
