Dr. Robert Satterlee
Dr. Robert Satterlee
November 7, 2025
10 a.m. — Noon
Steinway
Schumann as Pedagogue: The Album for the Young Op. 68
Pianist Robert Satterlee has developed a reputation as an accomplished and versatile solo recitalist and chamber musician. He plays regularly throughout the United States, delighting audiences with his incisive and imaginative performances. He has appeared on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, San Francisco’s Old First Concert Series, the Schubert Club in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Music Teachers National Association national conferences, the Quad Cities Mozart Festival and many colleges and universities.
He regularly performs in China, including concerts in Beijing, Shenyang, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Tianjin and Nanjing. Satterlee has played concerts at the new Romanian-American Festival in Romania, the World Piano Conference in Serbia and at the Interlochen Arts Center in the United States. He has performed in Greece. Sweden, Holland, Germany, Thailand and Kenya. He has been heard in radio broadcasts throughout the United States, most notably on Minnesota Public Radio and WFMT in Chicago.
Music of our time plays an important role in Satterlee’s performing activity, and he has given premieres of several works. In June 2004 he was invited to perform at the Music04 festival in Cincinnati, and has toured the United States and recorded his music on the Blue Griffin label.
Satterlee was appointed in the 1998 to the piano faculty of Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He teaches at the Interlochen Arts Camp and the Interharmony Festival in Europe in the summer. He has been awarded prizes in many competitions, among them honors in the St. Louis Symphony Young Artists Competition. He holds degrees in piano from Yale University, Peabody Conservatory and the University of Missouri–Kansas City Conservatory of Music.