Andrew David Mattfeld
Originally from the suburbs of New York City, conductor, pianist, and tenor Andrew David Mattfeld now spends his time living, teaching, and performing in an around the Boston area. His early training in music consisted of intensive voice and piano, studying under Morris Borenstien of The Julliard School, and soprano Eileen Mackintosh. He holds Degrees from Ithaca College School of Music concentrating in Conducting, Voice, and Collaborative Piano Performance as a student of Patrice Pastore, David Parks, Charis Dimaras, and Karl Lutchmayer. Andrew was a chorister with the Ithaca College Choir for 6 years and is a founding member of The Upstate New York Chorus. His conducting studies were with Lawrence Doebler, Janet Galván, and Jeffery Meyer. Andrew has performed at the Adriatic Chamber Music Festival in Bonefro, Italy as a solo and collaborative pianist, and as a tenor soloist with the Frost School of Music at Salzburg College for the 2012 Salzburg Festival.
Andrew has presented lectures, recitals, and concerts around the US and Europe, performing voice and piano recitals, as well as collaborations between area orchestras, chamber ensembles, choruses, and soloists, as a soloist himself or conductor or clinician. Andrew made his international conducting debut at the Louis Lewondowski Festival in Berlin, Germany in 2014. An intensive academic, his articles on the development of Cabaret culture as a form of political resistance in NAZI Germany were the foundations of a Fulbright to examine the current state of the art form in Berlin. He has participated in Masterclasses as a singer, pianist, collaborator, and conductor with many notable performers and teachers such as Sharon Sweet, Penelope Bitzas, Lindsey Christiansen, and the violinist Nadja Solerno-Sonnenberg. He has prepared amateur and professional choirs alike for Masterworks performances, state festival concerts, and virtual-choir projects during the Pandemic.
Mr. Mattfeld currently lives in Boston where he is Voice and Piano Faculty at Northeastern University. He serves as Director of Music and Organist at both The Church on the Hill Boston, where he is conductor of the Resident-Ensemble The Choir of the New Jerusalem, and The Central Reform Temple of Boston at Emmanuel Church. He is also a collaborative pianist for the Handel + Haydn Society and two time Assistant Conductor for The Zamir Chorale of Boston. He is the former Director of University Choirs at The University of Rhode Island, and former Director of Music and Organist at the First United Methodist Church of Melrose, MA. He has been a chorister with the Back Bay Chorale, The Metropolitan Chorale, and teaching fellow and assistant conductor of the Boston Children’s Chorus.