[2] 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.
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.
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.
[2] 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.
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.
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.