2024 STATE CONFERENCE

FEATURED ARTIST

MAUREEN HURD, clarinet

CLARINET Master Class

Maureen Hurd Hause is Associate Director, Head of Woodwinds, and Associate Professor of Clarinet in the Department of Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. She has appeared as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral clarinetist in Europe, Asia, and throughout the United States, performing in New York, New Jersey, and the surrounding area in such venues as Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Alice Tully Hall, (le) poisson rouge, and with the New Jersey Symphony, the American Symphony Orchestra, and the New York City Opera Orchestra, among others. She has performed at many International Clarinet Association (ICA) ClarinetFests® and is looking forward to playing another recital this August at ClarinetFest 2024 in Dublin, Ireland. She has appeared at the Norfolk, Skaneateles, and Lancaster Festivals and has recorded for Naxos and MSR Classics. Her solo CD Spelunk features premiere recordings of works by American composers. She is a Selmer, D’Addario, and Silverstein artist and the New Jersey State Chair for the ICA, and she has been recognized for her performances and study of Benny Goodman’s classical commissions and career. She earned DMA, MMA, and MM degrees from the Yale School of Music, studying with David Shifrin, Charles Neidich, and Ayako Oshima, and she earned her BM degree from Iowa State University in her native state, studying with Joseph Messenger.