Matthew Eng is a high school junior from Moorestown, New Jersey. He has studied piano for 9 years, the last 4 years with Veda Zuponcic, Professor of Music at Rowan University. In the spring of 2014, he won First Place in the Bravura (NJ) Young Artists Concerto Competition, resulting in a performance with the Bravura Philharmonic. In May 2014, he won Honorable Mention, Junior Division in the Greenfield Competition of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In the 13th Osaka International Music Competition in Japan, he won First Place for his age group and First Place for the Concerto Course. There he also won the Feurich Piano Prize, resulting in a winner’s recital at the Kaisersaal Hall in Vienna, Austria.
In the 2013 International Young Artists Piano Competition he won First Place for his age group and also for his performance of a selected Chinese work, and played on the Millenium Stage at the Kennedy Center. He was also a Grand Prize Winner in the Prima Artists International Music Competition.
Matthew has won First Prize in numerous other piano competitions over the years including the Greater Princeton Steinway Society Piano Competition 2012, the Steinway Society of South Jersey Young Pianist Competition 2012, New Jersey Music Teachers Association Young Musicians Competition 2012, and NJMTA for 2011 and 2010.
Matthew also plays violin and participated in Temple University’s Gifted Children’s Music Program as concertmaster several times. He also participates in the Philadelphia Sinfonia youth orchestra where in 2012-13 he was concertmaster of the Philadelphia Sinfonia Players.
Repertoire
Round I
Bach Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C-sharp major, WTC II, BWV 872
Haydn Sonata in A-flat major,Hob. XVI:46
Scriabin Sonata No. 9, Op. 68
Round II
Schumann Carnaval, Op. 9
Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue in D-flat major, Op. 87,No. 15
Round III
Schumann Concerto in A minor, Op. 54: I
