Catherine C. Kautsky

ADDRESSES

Lawrence University 1016 Van Buren Str. Conservatory of Music Madison, WI 53711 P.O. 599 (608) 238-7558 Appleton, WI cell: 608 345-5299 (920) 832-6627, fax (920) 832-6633 email: [email protected]

CITIZENSHIP: U.S.

EDUCATION

University City High School St. Louis, MO 9/65-6/68 High School Diploma Oberlin Conservatory Oberlin, OH 9/68-6/70 New England Conservatory Boston, MA 9/70-6/72 B.M. in piano with honors Juilliard School New York, NY 9/74-6/76 M.M. in piano 9/76-6/77 Professional Studies State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 9/82-6/85 D.M.A. 6/85

MAJOR TEACHERS

Piano: Theodore Lettvin New England Conservatory Boston, MA 6/70-6/72 Leon Fleisher Temple University Summer Institute Ambler, PA Summer, 1972 Gyorgy Sebok Indiana University Bloomington, IN Summer, 1973 Rosina Lhevinne USC Los Angeles, CA Summer, 1974 Juilliard School New York, NY 9/74-6/76 Martin Canin Juilliard School New York, NY 9/74-6/77 Gilbert Kalish SUNY, Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 9/82-6/85

Chamber Music: Felix Galimir Juilliard School New York, NY 9/74-6/77 Gilbert Kalish Berkshire Music Center Lenox, MA Summer 1981, 1982

SCHOLARSHIPS and AWARDS

St. Louis Artist Presentation Society Award April, 1974 St. Louis Symphony Young Artists Competition Winner January, 1976 Scholarship Participant, Rosina Lhevinne Master Class, USC Summer, 1974 Juilliard School Scholarship September, 1975 Juilliard School Teaching Fellowship 1976-1977 Berkshire Music Center Piano Fellowship, Tanglewood Summer, 1981,1982 C. D. Jackson Master Award, Tanglewood August, 1981 Passamaneck Award, Y Music Society, Pittsburgh, PA March, 1985 Association Amicale de l'École Normale de Musique de Paris July, 1994 Parents’ Choice Recording Award Winner 1999 Arts Institute Creative Arts Award, UW-Madison Spring, 2005

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RECORDINGS

"L'Histoire de Babar" (Poulenc), "Sports et divertissements," "Menus propos enfantins," and "Enfantillages pittoresques" (Satie), and "Shiver Me Timbers" (Deak); Vox Classics #7545, 1998. "The Virtuoso Clarinet" Fan Lei, Clarinet, and Catherine Kautsky, Piano. Recorded live, Pabst Auditorium, Milwaukee WI, March, 1997. “Visions of Y” (Yehuda Yannay), Recorded with Sally Chishom, Viola. Jan. 2007 Green Lake Faculty Showcase, July, 2007 Debussy, The Complete Preludes for Piano, recorded Aug. 2007

GRANTS

Lawrence University Faculty Research Grants 1987-2002 Lawrence University Travel Grants (Australia,Vienna,Paris) '88, '89,'98 Outagamie Found. Recording Grant Works for Piano and Narrator May, 1995 Freeman Travel Grant Piano Pedagogy: Japan, Korea, and the U.S. Dec. 2001 WARF Research Grant (UW) Debussy: His Preludes and their Poets July, 2003 Evjue Grant (UW) Piano Intersections-Piano Outreach Concerts 2004-2005 2004-05 Arts Institute Creative Arts Award "A Tale of Three Cities" 2005-2008 Chancellor's Grant Piano Intersections-Piano Outreach Concerts July, 2005 WARF Research Grant (UW) ETA Hoffmann and Schumann July, 2005 Evjue Grant (UW) Piano Intersections-Piano Outreach Concerts 2007-2008 2007-2008 WARF Research Grant (UW) Debussy Recording and Research 2007-2008

PUBLICATIONS

"The Performer as Critic," Clavier 29, #5 (May-June 1990), p. 46. "Musical Masks in Schumann's Carnaval," Clavier 30, #6 (July-August 1991), pp. 26-28. "Studying Aesthetics in the Concert Hall," Journal of Aesthetics Education 24, 4 (Winter, 1990), pp. 103-7. "Structures and Strictures in the Studio," College Music Society Newsletter, September, 1991. "What to Do When Practice Doesn't Make Perfect," Clavier, March, 1993, pp. 10-12. "Story Telling at the Piano," American Music Teacher, December, 1999, pp. 20-23. "Debussy: His Preludes and Their Poets," International Piano, Jan/Feb, 2005 pp. 58-62 "Helping Hands" American Music Teacher, April/May, 2006, pp. 30-32 "Music, Magic, and Madness: Tales of Hoffmann, Schumann, and Kreisler" International Piano May/June 2006, pp. 44-49 "The Do's and Don'ts of Concert Conversations" American Music Teacher, June/July 2006 pp. 22-23 "Debussy: His Preludes and Their Poets," Music Braille Magazine “Schumann’s Papillons and Jean-Paul’s Flegeljahre: Literary and Musical Disguises”—Accepted by International Piano for publication in spring, 2010

In process: “Eusibus, Florestan and Friends: Schumann and the German Doppelgänger Tradition” “Laughing and Dancing from the Trenches”

FACULTY POSITIONS

College Level: Tufts University, Medford, MA Studio Piano 1972-1974 Juilliard School, New York, NY Class Piano 1976-1977 Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ Class Piano 1984 Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Vocal Coaching, piano 1984-1987

2 University of Pittsburgh Studio Piano 1986-1987 Lawrence University Conservatory of Music Assistant Prof. of Piano 1987-1993 Lawrence Conservatory Associate Prof. of Piano 1993-2002 Brevard Music Center Studio Piano Summer, 1992 Lawrence University London Centre Director 1997-1998 Lawrence Conservatory Chair, Piano Dept. 1999-2002 Lawrence Conservatory Professor of Music 2001-2002 University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music Associate Prof. of Piano 2002- 2004 University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music Prof. of Piano 2004 - University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music Chair, Keyboard Dept. 2005-2008 Lawrence Conservatory Professor of Music 2008 -- Chair, Dept. of Keyboard Studies Nanjing Normal University Visiting Guest Professor 2009 --

Pre-College Level: Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ Piano and Theory 1980-1984 St. Hilda's-St. Hugh's, New York, NY Individual Piano 1976-1983

Staff Accompanist: Juilliard School, New York, NY String, Wind, Vocal Accompanying 1977-1983 Aspen Music Festival Violin Accompanying, Class of Dorothy DeLay 1978, 1979

Summer Music Festivals: Brevard Music Center Studio Piano Summer, 1992 Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp Studio Piano Summer, 1999 Rocky Ridge Music Camp Studio Piano and Chamber Music Summer, 2000 International School for Musical Arts Studio Piano and Chamber Music Summer, 2000 Green Lake Festival of Music Piano, Chamber Music Summer, 2001- present St. Lizier Music Festival Piano Performance Summer, 2002 Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society Chamber Music Summer, 2003 Castelfranc (Tarn, France) Piano Performance Summer, 200 Portland International Piano Festival Piano Performance Summer, 2006, 2009 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

College Music Society Music Teachers National Association (2006 Conference Planning Committee) Wisconsin Music Teachers Association Pi Kappa Lambda

LECTURES AND LECTURE RECITALS (Selected Listing)

"The Performer as Philosopher," College Music Society, Northeast Chapter; Boston, March, 1987. "Makrokosmos, Vol. 1, by George Crumb," Sonneck Society; Pittsburgh, April, 1987. "Mozart Piano Concerto K 459," Fox Valley Symphony Pre-Concert Lecture, Appleton, May 16, 1988. "Beethoven's Piano Sonatas," Lawrence University Business and Professional Lunch, Appleton, November 18, 1988. "Schumann's Carnaval," Laser Physics Workshop, Lawrence University, Appleton, June 30, 1989. "Piano Music of George Crumb, Ben Weber, and Charles Ives," Sydney University, Sydney, Australia,August 17, 1989. "Les Noces," Grad. Musicology Seminar, Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Aust, Aug. 14, 1989.

3 "American Piano Music," University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, August 15, 1989. "Fantasy Variations by Ben Weber, A Lecture Recital," College Music Society Annual Meeting, St. Louis, October, 1989. "The Many Faces of Reality in Schumann's Carnaval," Main Hall Forum, Lawrence University, Appleton, January 9, 1990. "Luxury in Hindsight - What I Wish my First Teacher Had Taught Me," Fox Valley Keyboard Teachers Association, Appleton, September 20, 1990. "The Making of a Pianist - Planting the Seeds for Success," Northeastern Wisconsin Piano Teacher Forum, Green Bay, October 5, 1990. "Practice Methods," MTNA Badger Audition Judges, Appleton, November 3, 1990. "Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Op. 111," International Zooplankton Ecology Symposium, Appleton, August 24, 1991. "What to do When Practice Doesn't Make Perfect, or How to Waterski Slowly," Wisconsin Music Teacher's Association Convention, Appleton, October 5, 1991. "The Makrokosmos of George Crumb, Vol. I and II," College Music Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, October 11, 1991. "Inside and Outside the 20th Century Piano: Avante-garde Repertoire for the High School Pianist," Music Teachers National Association National Convention, Milwaukee, April 6, 1992. "Preparing Students for Conservatory Auditions," Northeastern Wisconsin Piano Teachers Forum, Green Bay, May 1, 1991. "An Introduction to Schubert," Experience Schubert Weekend, September 11, 1992. "Avant-Garde Literature for the High School Pianist," Chicago, Ill., October 19, 1992. "Twentieth-Century Repertoire for Advanced Pianists," Appleton, January 9, 1993. "What to Do When Practice Doesn't Make Perfect," New England Piano Teachers' Association, January 25, 1993. "Music That Moves on the Piano," Grade School Residencies for Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Madison, WI, February 4-5, 1993. "Twentieth Century Literature for the High School Pianist," Milwaukee Piano Teachers' Association, March 1, 1993. "The Marriage of Figaro," Freshman Studies Lecture, Lawrence University, November 1993, November 1995. "L'Histoire de Babar of Poulenc," College Music Society International Conference, Berlin, June 16, 1995. "Story-Telling at the Piano," St. Louis Piano Teachers Association, St. Louis, January 17, 1997. _____, MTNA National Convention, Dallas, April 6, 1997. "Women Composers of the Twentieth Century," Festival of Contemporary Piano Music, Lawrence University, January 16, 1999. "American Women Composers: Three Lives," Lawrence University, March 2, 1999. "The Anatomy of a Sonata," Lawrence University Alumni Weekend, June 18, 1999. "Story-Telling at the Piano," Madison Area Piano Teacher’s Association, May 2, 2000. “Paris, Circa 1900, The Arts Entwined,” Lawrence University Alumni Weekend, June 16, 2000. “Words, Pianos and the French Imagination,” College Music Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, November 2, 2000. “Debussy’s Poets: A Look at the Preludes and the Artists that Inspired Them,” Music Teachers National Association National Convention, Wash. D.C., March 25, 2001 "Kreiserleriana and Kater Murr," Guildhall School, London, U.K., May 21, 2004 "Debussy, His Preludes and their Poets" New England Conservatory, Boston, MA Oct. 22, 2004 "Debussy, His Preludes and their Poets" New England Piano Teachers, Boston, MA Oct. 25, 2004 "Piano Inersections" College Music Society, San Francisco, November 4, 2004 "Of Kreisleriana, Tomcats, and Princes in Disguise" College Music Society, San Francisco, November 7, 2004 "E.T.A. Hoffmann through the Eyes of Robert Schumann: Hoffmann's Kappellmeister Kreisler as He Appears in Schumann's Kreisleriana" Center for the Humanities, UW-Madison, Sept. 23, 2005

4 “Kreisleriana, “”Poulenc’s Babar,” Portland International Piano Festival, Portland,OR, July 14 and 15, 2006 "Of Kreisleriana, Tomcats, and Princes in Disguise" Invited guest at Schumann Symposium, Lubbock, TX Sept. 29-30, 2006 “Schumann’s Piano Works and their Literary Inspirations;” “The Debussy Preludes and their Sources” Piano Teachers Workshop, UW-Madison, June 14-15, 2007 “Schumann’s Florestan and Eusbius: Reincarnations of the German Doppelgänger,” Golandsky Institute, Princeton, N.J, July 13, 2008 “Butterflies, Masked Balls, and Metamorphosis,” “WWI: the Musical Wars” Portland International Piano Festival, Portland,OR, July 18 and 19, 2009

MASTERCLASSES (Selected Listing)

University of Wollongong Wollongong Australia August 15, 1989. High School Piano Students St. Louis October 15, 1989. Milwaukee Conservatory of Music Milwaukee December 15, 1990. Longy School Cambridge, MA Jan. 18, 1992, May 4, 1996, October 24, 1996 Madison Area Piano Teachers Madison February 2, 1990. High School Piano Students St. Louis March 8,1992,May 29,1993, May 25, 1996 High School Piano Students--Milwaukee Piano Teachers' Association Milwaukee March 1, 1993 Rocky Ridge Music Festival Estes Park, CO July 26, 1995, June 30, 2000 Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL October 27, 1995 Walnut Hill School Nadick, MA May 6, 1996 University of Maryland College Park, MD May 4, 2000 Xian Conservatory Xian, China March, 2001 People’s University Beijing, China March, 2001 University of Capetown Capetown, South Africa March, 2002 Montclair State University Montclair, N.J. March, 2003 Luther College Decorah, Iowa Nov., 2003 Wisconsin Conservatory Milwaukee, WI Apr, 2005 Castelfranc Castres, France July, Aug. 2005 Portland International Piano Festival Portland, OR July, 2006, 2009 Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH March, 2008 Westminster Choir College Princeton, N.J. April, 2008 Nanjing Normal University Nanjing, China March, 2009 Beijing Central Conservatory Beijing, China March, 2009 Piano School of Xingzhi Shanghai, China March, 2009 Nanjing Normal University Nanjing, China March, 2009 Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance Jerusalem, Israel May, 2009

PERFORMANCES (Selected Listing)

Major Halls: Carnegie Recital Hall New York, NY Alice Tully Hall New York, NY 92nd St. Y New York, NY Merkin Concert Hall New York, NY Lincoln Center Library New York, NY Japan House New York, NY Jordan Hall Boston, MA Gardner Museum Boston, MA

5 Ethical Society Auditorium St. Louis, MO Sun City Fine Arts Society Sun City, AZ Phillips Collection Washington, DC French Embassy Washinton, DC Y Music Society Pittsburgh, PA Chicago Cultural Center Chicago, Ill. Performing Arts Center Milwaukee, WI Madison Civic Center Madison, WI Salle Cortot Paris, France Auditorium Saint Germain Paris, France Burgh House London, England Association des Musiciaens de la Vallée aux Loups Chatenay-Malabry, France Festival de St. Vaast la Hougue Summer, 2000 Hotel de Ville Collias, France

Major Universities: Harvard University Cambridge, MA Tufts University Medford, MA Dartmouth College Hanover, NH Washington University St. Louis, M Webster University St. Louis, MO Kent State University Kent, OH University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI Columbia University New York, NY Hunter College New York, NY Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL Lawrence University Appleton, WI London School of Economics London, England People's University Beijing, China Xian Conservatory Xian, China Nanjing Conservatory Nanjing, China Chung Ung University Seoul, S. Korea University of Capetown Capetown, South Africa Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA Luther College Decorah, Iowa University of WI-Madison Madison, WI London School of Economics London, U.K. New England Conservatory Boston, MA Stanford University Palo Alto, CA Nanjing Normal University Nanjing, China

Concertos: St. Louis Symphony St. Louis, MO St. Louis Little Symphony St. Louis, MO Kirkwood Symphony Kirkwood, MO Webster Groves Orchestra Webster Groves, MO Belmont Community Orchestra Belmont, MA Metropolitan "Y" Orchestra West Orange, NJ Milwaukee Chamber Orchestra Milwaukee, WI Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Madison, WI Lawrence University Symphony Appleton, WI Fox Valley Symphony Appleton, WI

6 Peninsula Music Festival Fish Creek, WI University All-Strings Madison, WI

Radio: KFUO St. Louis, MO WQXR New York, NY WNYC New York, NY WETA Washington, DC WQED Pittsburgh, PA National Public Radio Wisconsin Public Radio Madison, WI WFMT Chicago, Ill. 2MBS FM Sydney, Australia WGBH Boston, MA Michigan Public Radio Grand Rapids, MI Scranton Public Radio WVIA FM

Contemporary Music Festivals: Berkshire Music Center - Fromm Week Lenox, MA John F. Kennedy Center Competitions for Excellence in Performance of Black and American Music--Official Accompanist New York, NY Columbia University Composers Concerts New York, NY Music on the Edge Pittsburgh, PA

Chamber Music Series: West End Chamber Players New York, NY Delphi Trio New York, NY BargeMusic New York, NY New Marlborough Chamber Players New Marlborough, MA International String Competition Grenada, Spain Berkshire Music Center Concerts -Tanglewood Lenox, MA Claring Chamber Players New York, NY Chamber Music at Rodef Shalom Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh Chamber Music Project Pittsburgh, PA Grand Teton Music Festival Teton Village, WY Renaissance City Winds Concert Series Pittsburgh, PA Lawrence Chamber Players Appleton, WI Brevard Music Center Brevard, NC Rocky Ridge Music Festival Estes Park, CO Rembrandt Chamber Players Chicago, IL Green Lake Music Festival Green Lake, WI Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society Madison, WI

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