The
New Hampshire-born pianist Matthew Odell began his studies at the age of 10 and has since won acclaim for performances of a wide range of repertoire as a solo
recitalist, soloist with
orchestra, and
chamber musician. Recent concerts have including such diverse projects as
Messiaen’s
Des canyons aux étoiles. . . with
Maestro David Robertson and the Juilliard Orchestra for the reopening of
Alice Tully Hall, a performance in the
New York Philharmonic’s
Stravinsky Festival, and solo recitals of
Messiaen’s
Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus. He also performed contemporary works for piano and orchestra with the AXIOM Ensemble and completed a six-concert tour of
Taiwan with the Hampton Trio. In addition to performances in Weill Recital Hall and
Zankel Hall at
Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at the
Lincoln Center, and the 92nd Street Y, all in New York, Odell has appeared at the
Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C., in
Boston,
Chicago,
Paris,
Moscow,
St. Petersburg,
Taipei, Taiwan, and
Helsinki, Finland. He has also performed at the
Aspen Music Festival in
Aspen, Colorado, the European American Musical Alliance in Paris, New York’s Focus! Festival, the La Gesse Festival in
Toulouse, France, Nuits musicales and Concerts du cloître in
Nice, France, and the Rohm International Music Festival in
Kyoto, Japan. An advocate of modern music, Odell has premièred works written for him. He has performed contemporary repertoire with the
New Juilliard Ensemble, the AXIOM Ensemble, and the American Art Song Festival, a group he founded in 2004. In addition, he has also worked with composers, including
Pierre Boulez,
John Corigliano,
Mark Adamo,
Michel Merlet, and
Robert Aldridge. Odell's work with the music of Olivier Messiaen has been seen in performances of his
Couleurs de la cité céleste with the Peabody
Camerata,
Des canyons aux étoiles and
Sept Haïkaï with the AXIOM ensemble. He has also performed the
Quartet for the End of Time in Alice Tully Hall, songs and other chamber works, and an ongoing project of Messiaen’s complete works for solo piano. Recitals include a program of the music of Messiaen and his students and a tribute to Messiaen’s wife,
Yvonne Loriod. Odell is a founding member of the Hampton Trio, a group which presents outstanding pieces from the established
repertoire alongside new works written for them. Odell's special love of the art song repertoire has led to countless recitals with singers from around the world. He currently serves on the coaching faculty of the Académie internationale d’été de Nice in France and has appeared at Carnegie Hall in the
Marilyn Horne Foundations’s festival The Song Continues. Odell currently teaches at
The Juilliard School in New York and often gives
master classes, lectures, and workshops at universities and professional conferences throughout the U.S and Europe. In 2010 he graduated with a doctoral degree from The Juilliard School, studying with Margo Garrett, Jonathan Feldman, and Brian Zeger. Additionally, he studied with Marian Hahn 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 also worked with
Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the
Mozarteum in
Salzburg, Austria, with
Ann Schein at the
Aspen Music School, with
Laurence Morton at
Bob Jones University, and in master classes with
Leon Fleisher,
Ian Hobson,
Richard Goode,
Peter Hill, Martin Isepp, and the
Tokyo String Quartet. ==Current work==