katherine Dowling //
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critical acclaim //
Praised by the New York Times for her “crystalline performances, gestural expressiveness, and careful attention to color”, and by the Boston Globe for her “effortless incisiveness”, award-winning “tour-de-force” (OpusKlassiek) pianist Katherine Dowling performs across the America and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician, and can be heard on a dozen spellbinding recordings.
Solo Album //
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Elegy
A musical meditation on life & loss, mourning & love
During the darkest days of the pandemic, Katherine found comfort and company in music about grief. She built a recital around it, equal parts searing and soothing, which she has toured across Canada.
Listen to her CBC interview about it.
repertoire Sample
Ferruccio Busoni, Béla Bartók, Frédéric Chopin, Alice Ping-Yee Ho, Arnold Schönberg, Valentin Silvestrov, Teresa Carreño & Rudolf Escher.
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About //
Katherine grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada, surrounded by music. Piano lessons began early and she’s never tired of spending hours at the keyboard, being transported by the endless possibilities of sound, sonorities, colours, textures - while revelling in the physicality of playing.
She’s studied throughout North America and Europe, discovering contemporary chamber music at the Aldeburgh Festival, spending summers at Tanglewood and winters at the Banff Centre, completing her Doctorate at Stony Brook University with Gilbert Kalish.
teaching & community //
She’s currently Assistant Professor of Piano at the Mount Allison University, and formerly on faculty at the Phil & Eli Taylor Academy (Royal Conservatory of Music), duo526 Sonata Seminar, and the Orlando European Summer Course for Chamber Music.
While Professor of Piano at the University of Regina, she loved living and working back in her home province of Saskatchewan, the Land of Living Skies, and still takes every opportunity to give concerts in small communities around the prairies.
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