Arthur Haas

 

Arthur Haas, widely known as a performer and teacher of Baroque music, studied harpsichord with Albert Fuller at Juilliard and Alan Curtis in Berkeley and Amsterdam, as well as receiving a master’s degree in Historical Musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Haas is Professor of Harpsichord, Early Music Performance and Continuo at Stony Brook University and teaches harpsichord at the Yale School of Music. As a capstone to his distinguished career as musician and pedagogue, he was awarded the Howard Mayer Brown award in 2023 for lifetime achievement in the field of Early Music - the highest honor bestowed by Early Music America.

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After receiving the top prize in the Paris International Harpsichord Competition in 1975, he continued to live in France until 1983, performing and teaching in many of the major European early music festivals. 

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Mr. Haas has toured with Marion Verbruggen, Jaap ter Linden, Julianne Baird, Wieland Kuijken and Bruce Haynes. For over thirty years, he was a member of the Aulos Ensemble, one of America's premier early music ensembles, and now plays with  Empire Viols and the newly formed Gold & Glitter, touring the USA and Canada. Annual summer workshop and festival appearances include the Virginia Baroque Academy, the Maine Bach Virtuosi Festival in Portland, Lands End Festival on Cape Cod  and the Amherst Early Music Festival, where he served as artistic director of their Baroque Academy from 2002-2012. 

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Mr. Haas regularly teaches masterclasses at the Flint Collection and has appeared during Harpsichord Heaven since its founding. For plectra Music he has recorded the works of Rameau, Pasquini, François Couperin and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre.