MATTHEW WELCH: MUSIC FOR PIANO featuring Isabelle O�Connell
Thursday, August 27, 2026
8:30 PM
The Stone at The New School
55 West 13th Street, Manhattan, NY
Scheduled
About This Event
Matthew Welch: Music for Piano features performers Isabelle O’Connell (piano) and Matthew Welch (piano) at The Stone at The New School in New York City. This performance is part of Matthew Welch's residency at the venue. Known for its commitment to avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, and new music, The Stone provides a no-frills environment conducive to experimental music exploration. The concert will showcase original compositions and improvisations that reflect the artists' dedication to pushing the boundaries of contemporary piano music.
About Music for Piano
At The Stone at The New School, Matthew Welch presents *Music for Piano* with pianists Isabelle O’Connell and Welch sharing the instrument’s foreground. The set sits between jazz and rock/pop vocabulary, using improvisation and experimental methods to treat the piano as both rhythm section and sound source. It arrives as part of Welch’s ongoing residency at the venue, a New York City program that often functions as an informal archive of the current downtown scene. One clear throughline is process over repertoire, with structure emerging in real time rather than being announced.
About the Artists
Matthew Welch
Matthew Welch is a New York–based composer and performer whose work moves between Rock/Pop roots, jazz practice, and contemporary experimental music. At The Stone at The New School, his residency programs have included *STRING QUARTETS* with the Flux Quartet and *Music for Piano* with Isabelle O’Connell.
Isabelle O’Connell
"[one] of the finest, busiest pianists active in New York's contemporary-classical scene" pianist, educator and recording artist Isabelle O'Connell has an active international career as soloist and chamber musician that has taken her around the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and Chicago Cultural Center.