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The British-born pianist and writer Nicholas Mathew is Professor of Music and the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Mathew regularly appears as a recitalist and chamber performer, primarily on historical pianos, in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia. A widely published scholar and critic, he is one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music, especially Beethoven, Haydn, Viennese musical culture, and historical performance practices. Professor Mathew is a frequent public speaker, to both general and specialist audiences, on musical and artistic matters.

Professor Mathew is also a recognizable voice in the arts media. He is a regular contributor to the BBC in Britain and the ABC in Australia, and has engaged in collaborative projects with musical institutions including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, and chamber groups such as the Takacs Quartet. He is one of the founding members of the Chamber Music Collective, an experimental group of historically inspired artists and teachers based across the United States.

Professor Mathew was educated at Oxford University and studied piano with the Romanian virtuoso Carola Grindea at the Guildhall School of Music, London. He went on to receive his doctorate in music from Cornell University in New York State, where he studied historical pianos with the renowned American fortepianist Malcolm Bilson.

For more information about Professor Mathew’s scholarship, please see his webpage at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Political Beethoven and The Haydn Economy. More of his academic publications can be found here.

Upcoming appearances

June 3, 8pm, Hertz Hall, Berkeley: Chamber Music Collective faculty recital, with Sezi Seskir, Lucy Russell, and Kieran Campbell. The music of Mozart, Schubert, and Barthelémon.

June 4, 8pm, Hertz Hall, Berkeley: Chamber Music Collective faculty and student recital, with Sezi Seskir, Lucy Russell, and Kieran Campbell and guests. The music of Chopin, Beethoven, and Paradis.

June 5, 3pm, Hertz patio, Berkeley: Chamber Music Collective benefit concert. A celebration of the spirit of collaboration in music with Sezi Seskir, Lucy Russell, and Kieran Campbell and young musicians.

June 6, 7pm, Hertz Hall: Berkeley Festival and Exhibition. Dark Dreams — the Lieder of Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, and Clara Schumann, with Lucy Fitz Gibbon.

June 10, 3pm, Magnes Museum: Berkeley Festival and Exhibition, Lisette—A Song’s Journey From Haiti and Back, with Jean Bernard Cerin.

August 22, time tba: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: “Listening to Voices in the Specimens of Various Styles of Music.”

Sept 27, 6pm, Ira Raymond Room, University of Adelaide: Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, talk, “Music, Memory, Patrimony.”

Sept 30, time tba: Melbourne: four hands piano music of Mozart and Schubert with Anna Goldsworthy.

Nov 19, 7.30pm, location tba: Santa Cruz Baroque Festival & Distinguished Artists Concert Series: Beethoven piano sonatas on two contemporary fortepianos.