Catch Nicholas Mathew appearing twice at this year's Berkeley Festival and Exhibition.

Displaying the Cal Music Department's world-beating collection of nineteenth-century pianos, Professor Nicholas Mathew presents two concerts at this year's international Berkeley Festival -- concerts that promote the extraordinary diversity of early music: a Lieder recital with the soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon featuring the songs of Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann side by side, and an exciting and innovative presentation with the baritone Jean Bernard Cerin, which traces vernacular song traditions from colonial Haiti through the creole musics of nineteenth-century America and back to the sound worlds of contemporary Haiti.

Michele Kennedy and Jean Bernard Cerin

Michele Kennedy and Jean Bernard Cerin

Professor Nicholas Mathew launches The Chamber Music Collective

Nicholas Mathew launches an exciting and experimental new musical enterprise this summer: the Chamber Music Collective. Other founding members include the Turkish virtuosa Sezi Seskir, the British violinist Lucy Russell, the Toronto-based cellist Kieran Campbell, and the American baritone and polymath Jean-Bernard Cerin.

The CMC is operating an investigative five-day course in period chamber music this June, based around the fabulous collection of instruments in Berkeley’s Nineteenth-Century Piano Collection.

The course will conclude with a wonderful weekend of public concerts featuring faculty and students, presenting chamber music both well known and hardly known at all — performed with a refreshing experimental ethos and sense of aesthetic daring.

Seskir and Campbell will also be performing on the main stage at this year’s Berkeley Festival and Exhibition, where Nicholas Mathew appears twice: in a recital of lieder by Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Franz Schubert with the much-admired soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, and a captivating journey through the colonial and diasporic early musics of Haiti and America with the bartone Jean-Bernard Cerin.

Professor Nicholas Mathew: New Season Announcement

Let music’s Great Reemergence begin!

Nicholas Mathew will be announcing the new season’s concert dates before the end of July. Europe’s loss will be the America’s gain: all his British, German, and Austrian dates have been delayed to 2022-23, but several new appearances will be announced on the West Coast.

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Maria Sanchez Vargas: New Season Announcement

The new season, taking in concert and operatic appearances in Copenhagen, New York, and Lisbon, will soon be announced for Maria Sanchez Vargas, the Forabelle Foundation Star Soprano of 2019. Watch this space!

Happy New Year from the artists at Lambert Arts!

It’s been a tough year for performing artists all over the world. But the generous and supportive group of creative people at LAA have, as always, come together (virtually) with song and poetry for our annual New Year’s Hotshots’ Hogmanay! In 2021 we can look forward to hearing Anastasia and Mikel sing in the new year in person once again. We’re fixing dates for the 2021-22 season right now. Warmest wishes to you all, and to all creative people out there.

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Professor Nicholas Mathew launches BPM - The Berkeley Podcast for Music

Nicholas Mathew has launched BPM , an open-source podcast on all things Music from UC Berkeley Department of Music. Available on SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes, and wherever you get your podcasts.

In Episode 1 Professor Mathew talks about the life, music, and activism of Bay Area icon (and Berkeleyan) Malvina Reynolds with her daughter Nancy Schimmel, and guests from Architecture, Comp Lit, and Music.

Find BPM on Twitter https://twitter.com/UCBmusicpod

Visit BPM at their webpage https://music.berkeley.edu/bpm/

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Nicholas Mathew, pianist and writer, revised dates

Because of the COVID-19Bp crisis, Nicholas Mathew has sadly had to cancel or reschedule the following performance dates. We will announce his revised 2020-2021 season dates during the summer. Please check back to see the announcement of his full schedule!

Vienna, May 19

London, May 25

Norwich, UK, May 31

London, June 3

New York, June 7

Washington, DC, June 12

Berkeley, CA, June 20

Frankfurt, June 23

San Francsico, June 30

Bend, OR, July 14

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