Maureen Hurd Hause has appeared in concerts and
master classes throughout Europe, Asia and North
America. She has performed at Carnegie’s Zankel
Hall, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, at
Merkin Hall, with the Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center in Alice Tully Hall, and in South
Korea, France, England and Mexico. She was a
featured performer at the International Clarinet
Association ClarinetFests® in Vancouver, Canada
and in Japan and will perform again in 2011 in
Los Angeles. Festival appearances include
chamber music performances at the Norfolk,
Skaneateles, and Weekend of Chamber Music
Festivals. She has recorded for Naxos, MSR
Classics and Marquis Classics. Recent releases
include premiere recordings of works by Evan
Hause and William Bolcom and a recording of
Michael Daugherty’s clarinet concerto
Brooklyn Bridge. She earned all of her
graduate degrees including DMA from the Yale
School of Music where she worked with materials
in the Benny Goodman Papers of the Irving S.
Gilmore Music Library. She has been recognized
for her study and performances of classical
works connected to Benny Goodman, and she
performed and lectured at the Yale School of
Music and at Zankel Hall in 2009 as part of a
Benny Goodman centenary. Her primary teachers
were David Shifrin, Charles Neidich, Joseph
Messenger and Ayako Oshima. She joined the
faculty of the Mason Gross School of the Arts,
Rutgers University, in 2002, and she is a
Conn-Selmer and Rico Artist, playing Selmer
Paris Signature clarinets and Rico Reserve
reeds.
