Baritone Dr. Matthew Giallongo has been praised for his “beautiful voice and singing with great depth of feeling.” Equally at home on the operatic and concert stages, he has appeared with Opera Fort Collins, South Bend Lyric Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Actors Theatre of Indiana, Opera Today!, and the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra. Favorite roles include Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Nardo (La finta giardiniera), Schaunard (La bohème), Silvio (I pagliacci), and Picasso in Tom Cipullo’s After Life. His festival appearances include SongFest, the Collaborative Piano Institute, the International Music by Women Festival, and the Source Song Festival.
Matt currently serves as Director of Vocal Studies at Purdue University Fort Wayne, where he teaches applied voice, vocal pedagogy, and directs the university’s opera program. Prior to joining Purdue Fort Wayne, he held faculty appointments at Eastern New Mexico University, Louisiana Tech University, Grambling State University, and Colorado State University–Pueblo.
In addition to his performing career, Dr. Giallongo is an active scholar whose research focuses on French vocal pedagogy of the nineteenth century. He recently completed the first English translation of Jules Lefort’s Méthode de chant. His work has appeared in the NATS Inter Nos, and recently presented at the NATS National Conference on his research on Faculty Learning Communities in Vocal Music Education, with a related article forthcoming in the Journal of Singing.
Dr. Giallongo earned the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he was a student of William McGraw. He also holds degrees from Gettysburg College, Temple University, and Colorado State University.