Baritone Matthew Marinelli graduated in 2019 from Westminster Choir College with a Bachelor’s degree in Voice Performance. Matthew is equally at home in both choral and opera singing and regularly makes appearances performing in Philadelphia, New York, and New Jersey. Highlights of past seasons include singing Geronimo in Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto, premiering Kevin Puts’ The Hours alongside Renée Fleming and Kelli O’Hara, the release of the Bradley Cooper film Maestro in which he can be seen as a chorus member, and the premiere of Layale Chaker’s Ruinous Gods in which he played a chorus member and cop. In the coming season, Matthew can be seen performing with The Lotus Project, Princeton Singers, and the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir among other groups.

Matthew was born in Santa Barbara, CA and was raised in San Antonio, TX. Although his first love was piano which he started learning at 6, he grew up singing in choirs and was in his first professional choral ensemble by 17. When not singing, you can find Matthew conducting the Hunterdon Harmonizers, teaching voice lessons, playing guitar, mandolin, ukulele, and piano, or editing and recording music.

Matthew calls several places home, having lived in California, Texas, New Jersey, and South Carolina, and as a result, has a diverse cultural background. He grew up surrounded by a mixture of Hispanic, German, Danish, Greek, and Italian cultures and spent his early years listening to and performing country, folk, bluegrass, gospel, blues, jazz, choral, and contemporary worship music. He comes from an incredibly artistic family and was constantly surrounded by art teachers, music teachers, photographers, and actors growing up. Outside of music, he enjoys playing games, playing D&D, cooking, climbing, and making costumes. He also loves to travel (his first international trip was before he was a year old) and is always eager to add to the growing list of foreign countries he has sung in, having toured Peru, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and China.