Matt Scott Rodgers

British musician Matt Scott Rogers recently completed five seasons on the conducting staff of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, latterly as a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme. Rogers studied conducting with Neeme and Paavo Järvi, and was a member of Jorma Panula’s acclaimed class at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He first read music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, before continuing at the University of Glasgow, the Sibelius Academy and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was awarded a Leverhulme Studentship and was a Churchill Fellow.

In March 2019 he conducted the first performance of Boito’s Mefistofele at the Southbank Centre to critical acclaim. Recent engagements have seen Rogers conduct Chelsea Opera Group (Oberto, Mefistofele, and Samson et Dalila), Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra (Don Giovanni), and Sofia National Opera (Madama Butterfly). He has also joined the music staff of The Royal Danish Opera (Seven Deadly Sins and Manualen); Malmö Opera (A Midsummer Night’s Dream); the Royal Opera House (La Bohème), Grange Park Opera (Falstaff and La Bohème). As composer, his song cycle Honest Skin was premiered at The Royal Opera House by countertenor Patrick Terry and soprano Jennifer Davis.

Rogers came to international attention in July 2015 when he made his Lincoln Center debut conducting the New York City Ballet Orchestra. This was followed by a period with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as a member of the prestigious International Conductor Development Program. Other orchestras he has conducted include the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Orchestra of Opera North, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Tokyo City Philharmonic, Osaka Symphony, Dubrovnik Symphony, Berlin Sinfonietta, Southbank Sinfonia and the Estonian Festival Orchestra.