Matthew Lynch
CONDUCTOR
British/German conductor, Matthew Lynch, enjoys a busy international career. He is a Conducting Fellow of the London Philharmonic Orchestra for the 2024/25 season. In the coming season he will also be making debuts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony.
Recent seasons saw him make debuts with several high profile orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In the 2023/24 season he also returned to London’s Southbank Centre to perform Beethoven’s Eroica with the Chineke! Orchestra and made debuts with, the Philharmonia, the London Mozart Players, Sinfonia Viva, and the French chamber orchestra, Le Balcon.
A keen advocate of contemporary classical music, Matthew is a regular collaborator of the composers Max Richter and Devonté Hynes and has worked on, recorded and performed their music with ensembles internationally.
In addition to symphonic and contemporary repertoire, Matthew is a regular conductor of opera, and in recent seasons has conducted new productions of La Bohème, Rusalka, and Don Giovanni in Dresden, and Treemonisha at London’s Grimeborn Festival. He also continues to play an active role in music education, working with a number of youth and training orchestras, including the London Schools’ Symphony Orchestra, the Southbank Sinfonia, the Chineke! Junior Orchestra, and the orchestras of Trinity Laban Conservatoire and the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Matthew Lynch studied music at Oxford University and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Dresden, before continuing his studies with Neil Thomson in Paris. He was a conducting fellow of the Aspen Music Festival and School with Robert Spano, the Dartington Festival with Sian Edwards, and has participated in the Tanglewood Conducting Seminar with Stefan Asbury.
