Matthew Keng

Matthew is a senior at Montgomery High School who has been playing the violin since he was 4 years old, studying with Ellen DePasquale at the Juilliard Music Advancement Program, where he has served as concertmaster of both the orchestra and string ensemble and has also served as a representative of the program at Interlochen’s NYC Partnership Concert at Merkin Hall. Matthew has won numerous awards and accolades including being a top prizewinner at the London International Music Competition and the Schubert and Brahms International Music Competitions, being named Top 15 Exceptional Performer and being a First Prize Winner at the Charleston International Music Competition, and winning the Grand Prize and a scholarship at the Westminster Conservatory of Music Scholarship Competition, where he began his studies. In addition to his awards, Matthew has been invited to perform in masterclasses with internationally acclaimed musicians such as soloist Nicola Benedetti and Charles Yang of the Grammy-award winning trio Time for Three. Matthew spent last summer at Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s Young Artists Orchestra where he served as concertmaster and studied with violinist Miguel Pérez-Espejo Cárdenas, returning this summer to their String Quartet Workshop where he studied closely with the 2-time Grammy award-winning Attacca Quartet and 2007 Tchaikovsky Competition winner and cellist Sergey Antonov, along with the Boston-based Arneis Quartet. Matthew has performed in an extensive number of acclaimed venues, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Peter Jay Sharp Theater at The Juilliard School, Koussevitzky Music Shed and Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, and Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University, among others. Outside of music, Matthew loves enjoying food with friends and family, spending time outdoors, watching soccer and tennis, and taking pictures.