Meet Guest Conductor Matthew Halls
Matthew Halls will guest conduct the concert “Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto” featuring soloist Paul Huang (Jan. 11-13, 2024). Read about Matthew Halls’s background in this blog post.
Matthew Halls began his tenure as Chief Conductor of Finland’s Tampere Philharmonic this season, with programs ranging from Bach’s St John Passion through to Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. He also returns to the Finnish Radio Symphony, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, and Wiener Symphoniker, and debuts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and Tapiola Sinfonietta. Halls regularly guest conducts the Cleveland Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Iceland Symphony, Wiener Symphoniker, Finnish Radio Symphony, Dallas Symphony, and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra among others. Recent highlights include Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony with the Toronto Symphony, the U.S. premiere of James MacMillan’s Fourth Symphony with Pittsburgh Symphony (Halls previously conducted the world premiere of MacMillan’s European Requiem) and his Chicago Symphony debut.
With a background in period-performance, Halls was one of the first to guest conduct Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Concentus Musicus Wien. His discography includes Bach’s Harpsichord Concertos directed from the keyboard, the premiere recording of Handel’s Parnasso in Festa (which won the Stanley Sadie Handel prize), and Bach’s Easter and Ascension Oratorios. In the theatre, his operatic credits range from Handel’s Ariodante to Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.
