Eleni Matos

Matos has received universal acclaim and has been hailed as a winner in an unprecedented 34 of today’s most coveted vocal competitions (more than any classical singer), including the Maria Callas International competition of Greece, the Luciano Pavarotti International competition, and the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation. Matos has sung throughout the world under the batons of such renowned conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Jahja Ling, Neeme Jarvi and Constantine Orbelian. She also appears in the film and PBS special “Defiant Requiem” with Murry Sidlin. Most recently, she performed The Mezzo solos in Paolo Micciche’s Artsconverge production “The Last Judgement,” Verdi’s “Requiem” in Yerevan, Armenia under the baton of Constantine Orbelian. She performed Verdi’s Requiem under the baton of Massimiliano Murrali in Sardinia and Beethoven’s “Ah! perfido” in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Lviv, Ukraine, under the baton of Benjamin Loeb.

This past summer, Matos appeared in the 3rd International Women in Music festival with collaborative pianist Rebecca Wilt in “The Lost Art Songs of Luise Greger.” Last season, Matos performed “Des Knabem Wunderhorn” with the New Symphony Orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra, with Benjamin Loeb conducting. Enriched by her strong Greek-American heritage, Matos was honored to sing the Verdi “Requiem” at the foot of the Acropolis at Greece’s week-long remembrance of Maria Callas. Her debut recording of Haydn arias can be heard on the ERI label and her Alice Parker rendition of “Come Sunday” with the Tampa Bay Master Chorale and Florida Orchestra is available on CD.