Matt scott Rogers
Conductor: UCL Symphony Orchestra. UCL Symphony Chorus. University College Opera
British conductor Matt Scott Rogers is a member of the conducting staff at the Royal Danish Opera, working on their contemporary opera programme. Engagements this season include Manfred Trojhan’s Orest, Bent Sørensen’s Asle and Alida, and a new ballet by Arthur Pita on music by Gershwin. Also Music Director of UCOpera at University College London, he will conduct the European premiere of Gregory Spears’ Fellow Travelers.
Rogers completed five seasons on the conducting staff of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, latterly as a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme. Recent engagements have included Lakmé, Mefistofele, Oberto and Samson et Dalila for Chelsea Opera Group; Opera Holland Park for Itch as associate, Malmö Opera for A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Tivoli Ballet Theatre for The Nutcracker; The Royal Danish Opera for The Handmaid’s Tale, Turn of the Screw, Seven Deadly Sins, Orest, and Don Giovanni’s Inferno as assistant; University College Opera for The Crucible and Susannah.
Rogers came to international attention in July 2015 when he made his Lincoln Center debut conducting the New York City Ballet Orchestra. This was followed by a period with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as a member of the prestigious International Conductor Development Program. Other orchestras he has conducted include the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Orchestra of Opera North, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Tokyo City Philharmonic, Osaka Symphony, Dubrovnik Symphony, Berlin Sinfonietta, Southbank Sinfonia and the Estonian Festival Orchestra.
As assistant conductor at the Royal Opera House he worked with Andris Nelsons, Antonio Pappano, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Marc Minkowski, Emmanuel Villaume and Plácido Domingo, among others; he has also assisted Vladimir Jurowski at the London Philharmonic. Matthew conducted for the Royal Ballet on their summer tours in 2015 and 2016. Rogers studied conducting with Neeme and Paavo Järvi, and was a member of Jorma Panula’s acclaimed class at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He first read music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, before continuing at the University of Glasgow, the Sibelius Academy and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was awarded a Leverhulme Studentship and was a Churchill Fellow.
