Matthew Pauls

Assistant Professor of Music

Dr. Matthew Pauls is Assistant Professor of Music at Canadian Mennonite University, where he teaches voice, aural skills, and vocal pedagogy, and is the director of CMU Voices (TB). A dedicated performer and educator, he is passionate about equipping students with the skills to explore a wide range of vocal repertoire and to develop their unique artistic voices.

Matthew completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance at the University of Western Ontario, where his research focused on Argentine Art Song—a body of repertoire rich with musical gems that remains largely unknown in North America.

As a performer, Matthew has been praised for his on-stage poise and magnificent singing (Opera Canada). Matthew's stage credits include, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, the Speaker and second Armoured Man in Die Zauberflöte, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, Don Inigo Gomez in L’Heure Espagnole, Benoit in La Bohème, Marullo in Rigoletto, Father Christmas in Merry Christmas, Stephen Leacock, the Mysterious Man in Sondheim's Into the Woods, Frank Maurant in Street Scene, and Masetto in Don Giovanni. On the concert stage, Matthew has performed numerous works such as Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Handel’s Alexander’s Feast and Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Mozart’s Requiem and Vesperae solennes de confessore, Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, Durufle's Requiem, Grieg’s Four Psalms, Ramirez's Misa Criolla, J. S. Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium, Johannes Passion, and cantatas Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet! (BWV70), Gott, der Herr, ist Sonn und Schild (BWV 79), Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (BWV 80), Gottes Zeit is die allerbeste Zeit (BWV 106), as well as Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem and Five Mystical Songs.

Appearances as a featured soloist with ensembles across Canada and beyond have included the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional del Paraguay, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Guelph Chamber Choir, Windsor Classic Chorale, Windsor Symphony Chorus, and the CEMTA Cantores. Matthew has also performed with leading Canadian chamber choirs such as Pro Coro Canada, the Winnipeg Singers, Polycoro, Saskatoon Chamber Singers, and the Canadian Chamber Choir.

At CMU, Matthew integrates his experiences on stage and in research into his teaching, helping students engage deeply with music as both a scholarly and a performing art.

When not in the classroom or on-stage, Matthew enjoys spending time with great friends, good coffee, stimulating board games, and the challenge of parenting two wonderful children, Michaela and Levi, with his wife Laura.

Areas of Teaching

Voice Performance, Choral Performance, Aural Skills, IAMS Coordinator

Education

DMA, University of Western Ontario (2018); MMus in Literature & Performance, University of Western Ontario (2011); BMus in Voice Performance, Canadian Mennonite University (2005)

Work in Detail

Teaching

• CMU Men's Chorus
• Music Skills I–IV (Aural Skills)
• Individual Applied Music Studies (Voice)
• IAMS Coordinator

Performance

Oratorio/Sacred Repertoire

Bach                              Gottes Zeit is die allerbeste Zeit (BWV 106)

                                      Ich habe genug (BWV 82)

Daley                             Requiem

Fauré                             Requiem

Handel                           Alexander's Feast

                                      Messiah

Haydn                            The Creation

Mendelssohn                 Elijah

Mozart                           Coronation Mass

                                      Requiem

                                      Vesperae solennes de Confessore

Nickel                            Requiem for Peace

Vaughan Williams         Dona Nobis Pacem

                                      Five Mystical Songs

 

Opera Roles

Mozart                 Don Giovanni                    Masetto

                            Le Nozze di Figaro            Figaro

                            Die Zauberflöte                 Sprecher

                                                                    2er geharnischter Mann

Puccini                 La Bohème                       Benoit

Ravel                    L'Heure Espagnole            Don Inigo Gomez

Strauss                 Die Fledermaus                 Dr. Falke

Verdi                     Rigoletto                          Marullo

Weill                     Street Scene                     Frank Maurant

 

Music Theatre

Sondheim            Into the Woods                 Mysterious Man

 

Recital Repertoire

Brahms                               Vier Ernste Gesänge, op. 121

Finzi                                   Let us garlands bring, op. 18

Ginastera                           Dos canciones, op. 3

López Buchardo                 Cinco canciones argentinas

Quilter                               Three Shakespeare Songs, op. 6

Schubert                            Der Taucher

Smallman                          Epitaphs

Vaughan Williams             Songs of Travel

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