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Maureen Hurd has appeared as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral clarinetist in concerts throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Highlights include performances at the 2007 and 2005 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests® in Vancouver, Canada, and in Japan as well as appearances in South Korea, France, England, and Mexico City, Mexico. Performances of contemporary chamber music include appearances at New York’s Merkin Hall and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Alice Tully Hall as well as a Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk radio broadcast of American music in Germany and performances of works composed by her husband Evan Hause. She earned all of her graduate degrees including the DMA from the Yale School of Music where she worked with materials in the Benny Goodman Papers of the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library. Her Goodman research has also taken her to the Library of Congress, the Morgan Library, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center where in 2007 she gave a lecture-recital featuring works from that library’s Benny Goodman Collection. She has been a prizewinner in the International Clarinet Association (ICA) Research Presentation Competition for her Benny Goodman research and lecture-recital presented at the ICA ClarinetFest® in New Orleans, and she has written articles for The Clarinet, journal of the ICA. Her primary clarinet teachers include David Shifrin, Joseph Messenger, and Charles Neidich. She teaches clarinet and serves as Chair of Woodwinds at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. She frequently performs recitals, master classes, lectures and clinics at clarinet festivals, universities and conferences throughout the United States and abroad and is a Conn-Selmer Artist, playing Selmer Paris Signature Clarinets.