Matthew Odell

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Matthew Odell
BornNew Hampshire United States
GenresContemporary, Classical
Occupation(s)Pianist
Instrument(s)Piano
Years active1989 - present

Matthew Odell is an American

Washington, DC, Paris, Nice, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Helsinki, Taipei, and Kyoto.[2]

Background

The

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.[3]

In addition to performances in Weill Recital Hall and

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.[2]

Odell is a founding member of the Hampton Trio, a group which presents outstanding pieces from the established

Marilyn Horne Foundations’s festival The Song Continues.[2]

Odell currently teaches at

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

Matthew Odell teaches at The Juilliard School and the Académie internationale d’été in Nice, France. In addition, he gives masterclasses and lectures at colleges, schools, and professional conferences in the United States and Europe. He is involved in a long-term project to perform the complete piano music of Olivier Messiaen,[4] including specific recitals of the music of Messiaen and his students and a recital of music premièred and championed by Messiaen's wife, Yvonne Loriod. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Claude Debussy in 2012, Odell performed several programs of his songs in a series at the Lincoln Center in New York entitled Forgotten Melodies: The Songs of Claude Debussy.[5] [when?] He is commissioning several composers to write new pieces for him.[2]

Awards

Odell has been awarded the following:

  • Presser Award
  • Sarah Stuhlman Zierler Award
  • Two Peabody Career Development Grants
  • Lucrezia Bori Grant,
  • Virginia Allison Accompanying Award
  • Fellowships and grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts[6]

Sound Clips

References

  1. ^ http://www.steeplechasearts.com/trio_weill_poster.jpg[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ a b c d Odell, Matthew. "official website". Retrieved 29 October 2012.
  3. ^ a b Lowe, Jim (26 April 2012). "Fascinating program by New Hampshire pianist". The Barre Montpelier Times Argus.
  4. ^ Wong, Henry. "An die Musik Concert Calendar". Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  5. ^ "Lincoln Center concert schedule". Lincoln Center. Retrieved 29 October 2012.
  6. ^ "matchbook.org artist page Matthew Odell". matchbook.org. Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2012.

Odell, Matthew. "official website". Matthew Odell. Retrieved 2012-10-28.

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