Member
Contact Information
mattax@illinois.eduhttps://publish.illinois.edu/charlottemattax
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Early Music Skills & Interests
Fortepiano, Harpsichord, OrganEarly Music Affiliations
Educator, Opera Director, Performer
Biography
Charlotte Mattax Moersch
Biography
Charlotte Mattax Moersch, noted for her “dashing, intelligent playing” (The Classical Times, London), has performed at major venues in the United States and Europe, including Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, and Salzburg’s Mozarteum. Called “a non-pareil harpsichordist” (Early Music America) and “world-class performer” (Fanfare), she has been heard in solo and chamber concerts at international music festivals, among them the Festival of the Associazione Musicale Romana and Tage alter Musik Regensburg. Mattax Moersch’s discography for Centaur includes Bach’s Goldberg Variations, sonatas by Bach’s sons W.F., C.P.E., and J.C.F., and the complete solo harpsichord works of D’Anglebert, Noblet, Février, and Armand-Louis Couperin. Her most recent CD, "Bach and the Lautenwerk," features Bach's solo violin sonatas transcribed for keyboard; her Vernissage Project, encompassing over 100 solo harpsichord videos, can be viewed online. With Concerto Urbano, the period-instrument ensemble she founded in 1998, Mattax Moersch has presented fully staged operas, including Rameau’s Zéphyre and Cavalli’s La Calisto. Professor Emerita of Harpsichord and Early Music at the University of Illinois, she studied harpsichord at the Amsterdam and Paris Conservatories with Gustav Leonhardt and Kenneth Gilbert, and has degrees from Yale University (B.A., cum laude), Juilliard (M.M.), where she studied with Albert Fuller, and Stanford University (D.M.A. in Early Music).
