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Clarinetist Maureen Hurd Hause is Head of the Woodwind
Program and Associate Professor of Music at the Mason Gross School of the Arts.
She has appeared in concerts and master classes throughout Europe, Asia, and
North America, at New York City's Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Alice Tully
Hall, (le) poisson rouge, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Merkin Hall, and with the
American Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the New York
City Opera Orchestra, the Broadway production of The King and I at Lincoln
Center, and others. She has performed at International Clarinet Association
ClarinetFests® in Belgium, Italy, Japan, Canada, and the US and at the Norfolk,
Skaneateles, Lancaster, and Zodiac Festivals. She has recorded for Naxos, MSR
Classics and Marquis Classics, including her solo CD, Spelunk, of premiere
recordings of American clarinet works by William Bolcom, Evan Hause, Allen
Shawn, Alan Shulman, and Robert Starer.
She recorded Michael Daugherty's concerto for clarinet and
wind ensemble, Brooklyn Bridge, with the Rutgers Wind Ensemble. She earned
masters and doctoral degrees from the Yale School of Music where she worked
with materials in the Benny Goodman Papers; she has presented lectures and
performances on Goodman's classical commissions at Yale, Carnegie's Zankel
Hall, the Bruno Walter Auditorium of the New York Public Library for the
Performing Arts, and the University of North Texas. She was featured in the
premiere of the last work commissioned by Goodman, Allen Shawn's Concerto for
Clarinet, Cello, and Chamber Orchestra, in Fall 2019 with the Rutgers Symphony
Orchestra in the newly opened New Brunswick Performing Arts Center. A native
Iowan, she earned her undergraduate degree at Iowa State University. Her
primary teachers were David Shifrin, Charles Neidich, Joseph Messenger, and
Ayako Oshima. She is a Selmer Paris Artist, a D'Addario Artist, and a
Silverstein ProTeam Artist.
https://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/bio/Maureen-Hurd/