Matthew Best
Biography
Matthew Robert Best (6 February 1957 – 10 May 2025) was an English bass singer, choral conductor, composer and academic. He had a long career as a singer at major opera houses of the United Kingdom including the Royal Opera House and the English National Opera, performing lead roles such as Wotan in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Best was recognised internationally as conductor of vocal music performed with his ensemble Corydon Singers which he founded at age 16; their recordings of works by Anton Bruckner have been regarded as excellent and earned awards. He taught voice at the Royal Northern College of Music from 2015 until 2024.
Bio from Wikipedia
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
95 releases · 31 albums · active 1983–2024
- Performance · 115
- Other credits · 21
- Engineering · 14
- Production · 5
Studios: Time Square Studios · The Beat Farm · Southern Studios · Elysée Montmartre
Frequent collaborators
- Psychic TV
- Urban Dogs
- Various
- Pressure Point
- Car Crash International
- Psychick TV
- Carcrash International
- The Greedy Beat Syndicate