Hackensack piano prodigy Matthew Whitaker draws comparisons to Stevie Wonder
Matthew Whitaker has played a lot of rooms.
The room showbiz-speak for the venue might be large, like the Apollo Theater in Harlem (1,506 seats). Or it might be more modest, like the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (268 seats). But the room where he s most at home is the one he s in right now: the living room. How wide do you want the piano open? he asks.
As if it matters. Open or closed, Matthew Whitaker is going to fill his house in Hackensack with more music than it can handle.