Renowned in Chicago for performances in the Ravinia Festival’s Martin Theater, Symphony Center and the Chicago Cultural Center, as well as on WFMT, Matthew Hagle has performed nationally at Symphony Space in New York, the National Gallery of Art and the United States Supreme Court and, internationally, in England, Australia and Japan. Known for adventuresome programming that explores 20th and 21st Century repertoire, as well as lesser-known older works, he also has been heard on NPR’s “Performance Today” and Minnesota Public Radio’s “St. Paul Sunday Morning.”

Valued as a collaborator by many artists he has been the principal recital partner of violinist Rachel Barton Pine since 1999. Their CD American Virtuosa, released on the Cedille label, garnered many favorable reviews and reached No. 12 on Billboard magazine’s classical chart. He also performs with members of the Chicago Symphony and as a piano duo with his wife Mio Isoda-Hagle. Currently on the piano faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago where he is director of the musicianship program, his students have won prizes in local and national competitions. Also an occasional composer, his pieces have been performed in Germany and Japan.

A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory with masters and doctor of musical arts degrees from Yale University, Hagle received faculty prizes in piano, accompanying and music theory. While at Yale, he also received a Fulbright Scholarship for private piano study in London. His teachers have been Claude Frank, Robert Weirich, Donald Currier and Maria Curcio Diamand.

He and his wife reside in Chicago with their two small children.

Matthew Hagle

Liszt
Les Préludes, G. 97

Liszt
Concerto for Piano
and Orchestra No. 1
in E-Flat Major, G. 124
Matthew Hagle, Piano

Brahms
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor,
Op. 98