Carrie-Ann Matheson

Carrie-Ann Matheson is an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and a member of the Met's select full-time regular music staff, where she works as pianist, prompter, and vocal coach. She has assisted such renowned conductors as James Levine, Daniel Barenboim, James Conlon, Marco Armiliato, Fabio Luisi, and Louis Langrée, among many others. Particularly interested in the development of emerging artists, she was staff coach of the Metropolitan Opera's prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, a position that was created for her upon the completion of two years as apprentice coach/pianist.

An active performer, Ms. Matheson has collaborated in recital with some of the world's most prominent artists, including Marilyn Horne, Diana Damrau, Joyce di Donato, Susan Graham, Barbara Bonney, and Ruth Ann Swenson. A long-standing Marilyn Horne Foundation artist, she has appeared numerous times at Carnegie Hall under the organization's auspices.  Her chamber music credits include performances with members of the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. 

In addition to her work at the Metropolitan Opera, Ms. Matheson holds the position of head coach/head of music staff at Canada's Opera on the Avalon Festival. She has served on the coaching staff at Los Angeles Opera and the Cincinnati May Festival, and been a faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival and School and the International Vocal Arts Institute. She was co-music director of the Centro Studi Italiani Opera Festival in Urbania, Italy, and was producer and music director of "Opera Night in Asia," a series of concerts in China and the Philippines.

Ms. Matheson is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music, where she was a student of Warren Jones, and the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Anne Epperson.

Ms. Matheson is a featured pianist and vocal coach in the Metropolitan Opera's film The Audition, which documents the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Competition, and makes a cameo appearance, as herself, in the MET's HD release of Bellini's La Sonnambula.

A Music Academy alumna (1997-99), she became a faculty member in 2009.