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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 Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Mathew regularly appears as a recitalist and chamber performer 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 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.

Selected upcoming appearances

March 16: Wu Hall opening ceremony, Morrison Hall, University of California, Berkeley.

March 18: Brown University. Lecture: ‘The Posthumanization of Sound.’

April 7: Rice University. Lisette: Journey of a Song. Music of the Haitian Revolution and diaspora, with Jean Bernard Cerin.

September, tba. Bloomington Early Music Festival. Lisette: Journey of a Song. Music of the Haitian Revolution and diaspora, with Jean Bernard Cerin.