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