American bass Matthew Treviño is an internationally active performer and educator whose
career encompasses opera, concert, and the recording arts. A native of Texas, he has performed
with leading opera companies and orchestras throughout North America and Europe, including
English National Opera, Dallas Opera, Vancouver Opera, Opera Colorado, Austin Opera, Opéra
de Montréal, Calgary Opera, St. Louis Symphony, London Chamber Orchestra, Santa Fe
Symphony, and Colorado Symphony, to name a few. His repertoire includes Sparafucile in
Verdi’s Rigoletto, Ferrando in Il trovatore, Leporello and Il Commendatore in Mozart’s Don
Giovanni, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Bartolo in Le
nozze di Figaro, Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Seneca in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Timur
in Turandot, Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, The King in Aida, and Colline in La bohème.
He has created roles in world premieres by Gregory Spears, Scott Gendel, Robert Paterson, and
Gordon Getty, and has been featured in numerous commercial recordings, including Getty’s The
Canterville Ghost (Pentatone), Nyman’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Naxos),
Carly Simon’s Romulus Hunt (Lexicon Classics), and Paterson’s Three Way, whose recording
received the 2024 GRAMMY Award for Producer of the Year, Classical. In 2026, Navona
Records released The Farther Shore: 21st-Century American Songs and Arias for Bass, a solo
recording of works celebrating new music and the bass voice.
Professor Treviño brings more than two decades of teaching experience, emphasizing healthy
and sustainable technique, individualized artistry, and preparation for the realities of a
professional career. He previously served on the faculty of McGill University in Montréal, where
he also served as Voice Area Coordinator, and is sought after as a teacher and clinician, with
recent appointments at Calgary Opera’s McPhee Artist Development Program, the Mostly
Modern Festival, and Tulsa Opera’s Spotlight on Opera. His students have gone on to careers
with leading opera companies, orchestras, and universities throughout North America.
He holds degrees from Baylor University, where he received the Thomas Stewart Award for
Vocal Excellence. He is an alumnus of the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program and a
prizewinner in the Loren L. Zachary Foundation Competition, the Dallas Opera Competition,
and the Fort Worth Opera McCammon Voice Competition, and recipient of the 2010 Austin
Critics Table Award.