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Mathew
Fuerst is currently a fourth-year doctoral student at The Juilliard
School in composition, where he studed with Robert Beaser and John
Corigliano. Mr. Fuerst began piano lessons at the age of seven.
At age thirteen, he made his orchestral debut performing Beethoven's
Piano Concerto No. 2. In 1992, he enrolled at the Interlochen Arts
Academy, beginning formal composition lessons and continuing to
perform. Mr. Fuerst's Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra
was commissioned by Interlochen and premiered by the composer on
a National Public Radio broadcast in 1993. Later that year, he performed
the Ravel Piano Concerto in G.
In 1995, Mr. Fuerst continued his training at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied piano with Alan Feinberg and composition with David Liptak, Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner, Sydney Hodkinson, and Augusta Read Thomas. His many performances as pianist included a recital of the complete Liszt Mephisto Waltzes and Polka and the Ligeti Piano Concerto with the new music group Ossia. After graduating with a bachelor of music degree in 1999, he spent the summer in Paris at La Schola Cantorum, studying with Samuel Adler. Mr. Fuerst enrolled at The Juilliard School in the master of music degree program in 1999, studying with Robert Beaser. During a tour of Scotland funded by the School in the summer of 2000, a chamber group from the School premiered his Chaconne for piano quartet. In 2001, Mr. Fuerst was a co-winner of Juilliard's Palmer-Dixon Prize for his Sonata-Fantasie No. 1 for piano and violin. That same year, his composition, Portrait was performed at Alice Tully Hall by The Juilliard Symphony under Jeffery Milarsky, a piece for which he received his second Palmer-Dixon Prize in 2002. The work was later selected for the Whitaker Competition and read by The American Composers Orchestra under Steven Sloane. In 2004, his Clarinet Quartet was written for the New York City Ballet's Choreographic Institute, choreographed by Principle Dancer Albert Evans. The work recieved 21 performances with the Washington Ballet in May of that year, and will be presented as part of the Spring 2005 season of the New York City Ballet at the New York State Theater in Lincoln Center. Mr. Fuerst's music has been performed in concerts at Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and the Miller Theatre in New York City, as well as concert halls in Montreal, Paris, Houston, Pennsylvania, and Hong Kong. His Sonata-Fantasie No. 1 will be performed and broadcast in an upcoming nation-wide broadcast on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio.
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