Matthew dirst biography

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Contact Information

mdirst@uh.edu

https://www.matthewdirst.com/

Location

Houston, Texas

Early Music Skills & Interests

Conductor, Harpsichord, Organ

Early Music Affiliations

Conductor, Music/Artistic Director, Musicologist, Performer

Biography

Conductor, keyboard player, and musicologist Matthew Dirst is widely admired for his stylish playing and conducting of Baroque music especially. He is featured on two new recordings on the Acis label: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, and Alessandro Scarlatti’s 1710 oratorio La sposa dei cantici. About the former, the American Record Guide enthuses that “his playing sounds like great conducting…the musicians are his own fingers; while about the latter, Early Music America notes that “Dirst brilliantly brings it all to life” with Ars Lyrica Houston, a period-instrument ensemble he founded in 2003. His recordings with Ars Lyrica have also been recognized with a Grammy nomination for Best Opera (2011). Professor of Musicology at the Moores School of Music, University of Houston, and organist of St Philip Presbyterian Church in Houston, he is the author of Engaging Bach: The Keyboard Legacy from Marpurg to Mendelssohn (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and B

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Biography Matthew Dirst & Ars Lyrica Houston

Matthew Dirst
is the first American to win major international prizes in both organ and harpsichord, including first prize at the American Guild of Organists Young Artist Competition (1990) and second prize at the Warsaw International Harpsichord Competition (1993). In addition to his work with Ars Lyrica, Matthew also serves as Associate Professor of Music at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music and organist at St Philip Presbyterian Church. His degrees include a PhD in musicology from Stanford University and the prix de virtuosité in both organ and harpsichord from the Conservatoire National de Reuil-Malmaison, where he spent two years as a Fulbright scholar. Noted for his stylish playing of Baroque music in particular, his recent performances of Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” were praised as “an extremely taut and accurate traversal” (The New York Sun), “a technically dazzling, deeply moving performance” (Houston Chronicle), “of irresistible rhythmic impulse [and] dazzling virtuosity” (Dallas Morning News). His most recent recording, Bach Organ Music for the Christmas Season, has just been released on the Centaur label and is available for purchase at all Ars Lyrica performances.