Abigail Mace

Abigail Mace is a doctoral candidate in piano performance at the Butler School of Music where she is a student of Professor Nancy Garrett. Mace was the recipient of a Netherland-America Foundation Fulbright Grant to study early music at The Royal Conservatory of The Hague with Professor Jacques Ogg during the 2010-2011 school year and continues to pursue early keyboards as an area of specialty. Mace is currently completing a doctoral thesis entitled, "The Stylus Phantasticus in the Keyboard Toccatas of J. S. Bach, BWV 910-916: Inspiration and Interpretation."

Mace was a teaching assistant in piano at The University of Texas at Austin for Professors Martha Hilley and Sophia Gilmson from 2006 to 2010. She coordinated The University of Texas Piano Project, a program that pairs UT piano majors with students in the Austin community, from 2007 to 2010. As a member of The University of Texas University Extension faculty between 2008 and 2010, Mace taught class piano to members of the Austin and UT communities. During the summer of 2008 Mace taught piano at the Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan.

Mace has performed in piano masterclasses for Emanuel Ax, Gilbert Kalish, Ruth Laredo, and Angela Hewitt, among others. As a harpsichordist, Mace has played in masterclasses for Olivier Fortin, Arthur Haas, and Charlotte Nediger, and on fortepiano for Malcolm Bilson, David Breitman, and Andrew Willis. She has been a member of The University of Texas Early Music Ensemble since 2007 and performed harpsichord with the Butler School of Music’s Bach Cantata Project during the 2008-2009 season.

Mace has performed across the USA and abroad, as a participant in the Fulbright Europe Music Gala, Berlin, Germany (2011), Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, Toronto, Canada (2009), the International Baroque Institute at Longy, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2009), the Prague International Piano Masterclasses, Czech Republic (2006 and 2007), the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Colorado Springs (2007), Malcolm Bilson’s Fortepiano Workshop, Ithaca, New York (2007), and the Heifetz International Summer Music Institute, Annapolis, Maryland (2001).