Matthew Odell

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Matthew Odell
An American Pianist
Background information
Born	1979 New Hampshire United States
Genre(s)	Contemporary, Classical
Occupation(s)	Pianist
Instrument(s)	Piano
Years active	1989 - present

Matthew Odell is an American pianist. He has distinguished himself as both a solo and collaborative pianist, performing at a variety of historical locations throughout the United States including New York's Carnegie Hall [1] and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC as well as numerous cities around the world.

1 Background
2 Current Work
3 Awards
4 Sound Clips
5 References

[edit] Background

The New Hampshire-born pianist began his studies at the age of 10. A strong advocate of the music of our time, he has performed contemporary repertoire with the New Juilliard Ensemble and with the American Art Song Festival, an organization he founded in 2004. Mr. Odell's performances of his Couleurs de la cité céleste with the Peabody Camerata, the Quartet for the End of Time in Alice Tully Hall, and numerous song cycles and solo piano works. Mr. Odell is a founding member of the Hampton Piano Trio [2], a group actively involved in presenting outstanding works from the established repertoire alongside newly-commissioned works. In addition to performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Weill Recital Hall[3] at Carnegie Hall, and Alice Tully Hall in New York, Mr. Odell has appeared at the Aspen Music Festival, New York's Focus! Festival, the La Gesse Festival in Toulouse, France, in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, and at the International Music Academy in Nice, France, where he was on the faculty, and Rohm International Music Festival in Kyoto, Japan.

[edit] Current Work

Mr. Odell is currently a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at the Juilliard School, where he studies with Margo Garrett, Jonathan Feldman, and Brian Zeger. He completed his studies with Marian Hahn (piano performance) and Eileen Cornett (collaborative piano) at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, graduating Pi Kappa Lambda with both a master of music degree and a graduate performance diploma in piano performance. He has also studied with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and with Ann Schein at the Aspen Music School. He has performed in master classes of Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Ian Hobson, Martin Isepp, and the Tokyo String Quartet.

[edit] Awards

Mr. Odell has won many awards, including the Sarah Stuhlman Zierler Award, two Peabody Career Development Grants, the Lucrezia Bori Grant, the Virginia Allison Accompanying Award, and the La Gesse Foundation Competition.