Bass Matt Boehler has been critically acclaimed for his dramatic ability and his "supple, clarion bass." With Wolf Trap Opera Company, he garnered much praise in the title role of Sweeney Todd. His engagements this season include Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia with the Minnesota Opera, Spencer Coyle in Owen Wingrave with Chicago Opera Theater, and his debut with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna as Snug in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In concert he will debut with the New York Philharmonic in Elektra, with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for Bernstein’s Mass, with Musica Sacra as Christus in Bach’s St. John Passion, and with New York Choral Society in Messiah.
     Frequently engaged on the concert platform, he has been heard with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Bach's Magnificat, Mozart’s Mass in C-minor, Thamos with National Chorale, and with the Oratorio Society in its 2005 performance of Charpentier’s Te Deum .
     Matt Boehler has been awarded prizes in the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition, the National Opera Association's competition, and the Midwest Region of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He is a three-time first-prize winner of the Schubert Club vocal competition and a recipient of a Richard F. Gold Career Grant from the Shoshana Foundation.