Arthur Haas

Arthur Haas is currently one of the most sought-after performers and teachers of Baroque music in the United States. He holds a master’s degree in historical musicology from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied harpsichord with Bess Karp. He also studied with Albert Fuller at the Juilliard School and with Alan Curtis in Berkeley and Amsterdam.

Mr. Haas won First Prize at the Paris International Harpsichord Competition in 1975. He is a member of the Aulos Ensemble and the Musical Assembly, with whom he has recorded sonatas and suites from François Couperin’s Les Nations. His solo recordings of Jean-Henri d’Anglebert’s Pièces de clavecin and Forqueray’s harpsichord suites have been highly praised by the press.

Renowned for his continuo skills, he has toured with distinguished musicians such as Marion Verbruggen, Stephen Preston, Judith Nelson, Laurence Dreyfus, and Phoebe Carrai. Mr. Haas is currently on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the Mannes College of Music in New York.