Matthew Golding was born in 1985. He studied at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School in Canada and the Universal Ballet Academy in Washington DC. In 2002 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Youth American Ballet Competition in New York and received a prize scholarship at the Lausanne Ballet Competition to attend the Royal Ballet School in London. He graduated from the Royal Ballet School in 2003 and joined the American Ballet Theatre, New York. In 2009 he joined Het National Ballet in Amsterdam, where he is currently a Principal Dancer. His repertoire includes the roles of Solor in La Bayadère by Natalia Markarova, Basilio in Don Quixote by Alexei Ratmansky, the Prince in The Sleeping Beauty by Sir Peter Wright, George Balanchine’s Violin Concerto, Serenade and Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Orion in Sylvia by John Neumeier, Twyla Tharp’s in the Upper Room, Hans van Manen’s Hammerklavier, Without Words, 5 Tangos and Grosse Fuge and Rudi Van Dantzig’s Four Last Songs. Ballet companies with which he has appeared as a guest dancer include the Tokyo Ballet, the Teatro di Roma, the Nureyev Ballet Festival with the Kazan Ballet Theatre in Russia and the Ljubljana Ballet Theatre directed by Irek Mukhamedov. He performed the role of Basilio in Alexei Ratmansky’s Don Quixote for a DVD recording with Het National Ballet in 2010. Also in 2010, he was awarded the Alexandra Radius Prize. He recently danced the role of the Prince for the cinema film and DVD of Wayne Eagling and Toer van Schayck’s production of the Nutcracker for which he received a Benois de la dance prize nomination.
