Katherine Collier, Piano
Katherine Collier has had a distinguished and versatile career as a soloist and collaborative artist. After her early training in Texas, she studied piano with Cecile Genhart and Brooks Smith at the Eastman School of Music where she was unanimously awarded the Performer’s Certificate. She was the first prize winner of the National Young Artist’s Competition and the Van Cliburn Scholarship Competition and was the recipient of a Rockefeller Award. She won a Kemper Educational Grant to do postgraduate work at the Royal College of Music in London,England.
Collier has been a soloist with orchestras in Cincinnati, Dallas, Eastman-Rochester, and Houston, and is an active collaborator with many renowned musicians including Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Ani and Ida Kavafian, Soovin Kim, Cho-Liang Lin, Andres Cardenes, Steven Doane, David Shifrin, Amit Peled, Edgar Meyer, and members of the Tokyo, Emerson, Cleveland, Orion, Vermeer, Miami, Shanghai, and Ying Quartets.
She has performed chamber music around the world and appeared in recital halls in Europe such as Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room (Southbank) in London, Mogens Dahl Concert Hall in Copenhagen, the Concertgebouw Recital Hall in Amsterdam, the Brahms-Saal in Vienna, and the Konzertsaal der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. She has presented concerts at Merkin Hall, the Phillips Collection, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, and the Y Music Society in Pittsburgh. She performs at the Aspen Music Festival, Interlochen, Meadowmount, and Skaneateles. As an accompanist, Ms. Collier worked in the studios of Dorothy Delay at Aspen and Nathan Milstein and the BBC in London.
Collier tours extensively with her husband, violist Yizhak Schotten. They are founders and music directors of the Maui Classical Music Festival in Hawaii and were music directors of the Strings Festival in Steamboat Springs for fifteen years. She appears with her husband on four compact discs on Crystal Records and has recorded with other artists on the Pandora, Pearl, Crystal, and Centaur labels. Prof. Collier teaches collaborative piano at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.