Matthew Figel

Matthew was named a fellow at the 2022 Gilmore Piano Festival and made recent summer concert appearances at the Southeastern Piano Festival in Columbia and the Arts at Messiah Summer Concert Series. His successes in competitions have included top prizes in the Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition and the Harold Protsman Classical Period Competition. He was also named a finalist and awarded sixth prize at the 2022 International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, where he performed with the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra in Leipzig.

Eager to specialize in 18th and early 19th-century repertoire, Matthew has studied harpsichord and fortepiano with Eduardo Bellotti and Lisa Goode Crawford in addition to lessons in historical performance practice under Paul O’Dette. Additionally, he attended the inaugural Forte / Piano Academy held at the Cornell Institute for Historic Keyboards, where he studied with Mike Cheng-Yu Lee and Malcolm Bilson. Recently, he performed at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History as part of a recital presenting the complete Piano Trios of Ludwig van Beethoven as part of the Beethoven Trio Academy coached by Kenneth Slowik, Mike Cheng-Yu Lee, David Breitman, and Vera Beths.