Matthew Rupcich has enjoyed an extensive career as a professional singer, conductor, and educator. As the Conductor and Music Director for the Rockland Camerata in Rockland County, New York, he brings a passion and love for choral music by providing unique and well received programming. Under his leadership of the Rockland Camerata, the ensemble presented Beatus Vir (Monteverdi), Canticum Hebraicum (Saladin), Liebeslieder Waltzer (Johannes Brahms), Dixit Dominus (Vivaldi), Magnificat (Bach), Mass for the Children (Rutter), Ceremony of Carols (Britten), Mass in Time of War (Haydn), and Christmas Cantata (Pinkham).
Biography
In 2011, he was invited to participate in the Eighteenth International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton, England, serving as Music Director and Conductor of SAVOYNET’s production of The Mikado. He served as the Concert and Choral Director for the Blue Hill Troupe of New York City from 2005 – 2012, conducting both operettas (Gilbert and Sullivan) and musicals (Brigadoon, Into the Woods, and Follies).
From 2006 - 2016 Matthew served as an adjunct professor of choral music at Hunter College (CUNY) where he conducted a significant number of major choral works, including Requiem (Duruflé), Dona Nobis Pacem (Vaughan Williams), Mass in C (Beethoven), Carmina Burana (Orff), Utrecht Jubilate (Handel), Dixit Dominus (Vivaldi), and Te Deum (Haydn). Matthew has conducted at West Point, The Richard Rodgers Theater, The Metropolitan Museum, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Buxton Opera House in England, among other internationally recognized houses.
