FSU’s Department of Music, Theatre and Dance Presents Pianist Matthew Palumbo in Guest Artist Series Concert

FSU's Department of Music, Theatre and Dance Presents Pianist Matthew Palumbo in Guest Artist Series Concert

Sep 8, 2025 8:00 AM

Frostburg State University's Department of Music will present pianist Matthew Palumbo in a Guest Artist Series concert on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU's Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public. This event will also be livestreamed; the link will be posted at https://www.frostburg.edu/concerts.

For this concert, Palumbo will be performing Bach's rhapsodic and adventurous "Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV 903"; Beethoven's early masterpiece, the "Sonata Op. 10, No. 3 in D major"; and Alexander Scriabin's epic "Sonata Op. 23 "States of the Soul"".

Accomplished pianist and teacher, Palumbo made his solo debut with the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra at age thirteen as the winner of the Seattle Young Artists Music Festival. He performed across the United States and Europe in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Benaroya Hall and Friedberg Hall. In 2015 Palumbo was the Maryland Artist representative for the Music Teachers National Association where he performed more locally in Strathmore, Goodwin, Griswald, Katzen, Peters, Linehan and numerous others and appeared on concert series such as First and Franklin, Cathedral Concert Series, Sound and Serenity and An Die Musik, Prince George's Artist Series, to name a few.

Palumbo is in high demand as a teacher, judge, adjudicator and master clinician throughout the Baltimore-D.C. Metro region. Most recently, he has been a judge for the E.R. Davis, Hartman, Doris Chase and Gottlieb competitions and is currently the chairperson for the MTAGB Collegiate Scholarship competition in coordination with Steinway and Sons. Palumbo is an active board member of the Maryland State Music Teachers Association, an associate professor at College of Baltimore County and was co-director and faculty at the Leon Fleisher Academy in 2022. His students have received numerous awards and have been accepted with highest scholarships to Peabody, University of Maryland, Towson, Howard, Susquehanna and others and performed in venues that included Weill Hall and the Kennedy Center.

For more information, contact FSU's Department of Music at 301-687-4109.