Catherine Rollin

May 9
10 a.m. — Noon
Steinway

Joint meeting and luncheon with SLAMTA

Catherine Rollin

The Magic of Imagery 

Catherine Rollin is a pianist, composer, clinician, author and teacher of prize-winning students. Her more than 400 published pedagogical compositions are recognized worldwide for their combination of musicality and “teachability.” As a clinician, Rollins has given over 300 workshops and masterclasses throughout the United States, Canada, Japan and Taiwan.

Her efforts as a composer, clinician and author are an outgrowth of her work as a teacher, all emanating from her central passion for teaching. Finding the answers to help her students develop artistic, relaxed and confident technical skills led her to insights featured in her ground-breaking series, Pathways to Artistry. Rollins’ ASCAP award-winning books, Museum Masterpieces, feature her original piano works inspired by great art masterpieces from museums around the world. She wrote this series after seeing how her students’ creativity was sparked by artwork imagery. She is also the co-author of the 2011 edition of the highly regarded college text, Creative Piano Teaching.

A few fun facts: Catherine is a chocoholic. She thinks most pianists have this in common. She is left handed and has perfect pitch. (She thinks that there are a disproportionate group of lefties with perfect pitch in the world and hopes someone might research this someday for their doctoral thesis! ) She wrote her “Summer” pieces in honor of her daughter “Summer.” Rollins’ husband is a piano teacher and tuner. Rollins loves meeting piano teachers, piano students and piano music afficionados and feels very blessed that her work has brought her in touch with incredibly interesting and passionate music lovers from all over the world.