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Matthew Odell is an American pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

. 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

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

http://www.steeplechasearts.com/trio_weill_poster.jpg and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC as well as numerous cities around the world.

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

Peabody

-Places:United States* Peabody, Indiana* Peabody, Kansas** Peabody Downtown Historic District, in Peabody, Kansas* Peabody, Massachusetts* Peabody, Cambridge, Massachusetts, a neighborhood* Peabody River, in New Hampshire-Institutions:...

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 http://www.steeplechasearts.com/trio.htm, 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.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

, Weill Recital Hall http://www.steeplechasearts.com/trio_weill_poster.jpg at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

, and Alice Tully Hall

Alice Tully Hall

Alice Tully Hall is a concert hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. It is named for Alice Tully, a New York performer and philanthropist whose donations assisted in the construction of the hall...

in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, Mr. Odell has appeared at the Aspen Music Festival, New York's Focus! Festival, the La Gesse Festival in Toulouse

Toulouse

Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

, France

France

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, in Moscow

Moscow

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and St. Petersburg, Russia

Russia

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, and at the International Music Academy in Nice

Nice

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, France

France

, where he was on the faculty, and Rohm International Music Festival in Kyoto

Kyoto

is a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.-History:...

, Japan

Japan

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Current work

Mr. Odell is currently a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at the Juilliard School

Juilliard School

The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...

, 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

Pi Kappa Lambda

Pi Kappa Lambda is an American honor society for undergraduate students, graduate students, and professors of music. There are currently 205 active chapters and approximately 64,500 individual members....

with both a master of music degree and a graduate performance diploma in piano performance. He has also studied with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling

Karl-Heinz Kämmerling

Karl-Heinz Kämmerling is a notable German academic teacher of classical pianists, who prepared at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover pianists for a career as performers and academic teachers, particularly in the early training of highly gifted...

at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and with Ann Schein at the Aspen Music School. He has performed in master classes of Leon Fleisher

Leon Fleisher

Leon Fleisher is an American pianist and conductor.-Early life and studies:Fleisher was born in San Francisco, where he started studying the piano at age four...

, Richard Goode

Richard Goode

Richard Goode is an American classical pianist, especially known for his interpretations of Ludwig van Beethoven and chamber music.Goode was born in East Bronx, New York...

, Ian Hobson, Martin Isepp, and the Tokyo String Quartet

Tokyo String Quartet

The is an international string quartet.The group formed in 1969 at the Juilliard School of Music. The founding members attended the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, where they studied with Professor Hideo Saito. Soon after its formation the Quartet won First Prizes at the Coleman Competition,...

Awards

Mr. Odell has won many awards, including the Sarah Stuhlman Zierler Award, two Peabody

Peabody

Career Development Grants, the Lucrezia Bori

Lucrezia Bori

Lucrezia Bori was a Spanish operatic singer, a lyric soprano.-Biography:Lucrezia Bori was born in Valencia, Spain. Her real name was Lucrecia Borja y González de Riancho and her family were reputed to be descended from the Borgias.Her voice had a unique timbre and transparent quality unlike any...

Grant, the Virginia Allison Accompanying Award, and the La Gesse Foundation Competition.

Sound Clips

Capriccio in D minor (1) (Brahms)

Intermezzo in E major (Brahms)

Capriccio in D minor (2) (Brahms)

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