Catherine Bringerud, accompanying/chamber music
Catherine Bringerud completed Bachelor and Master degrees
in piano performance at Indiana University earning a Performer's
Certificate upon completion of her degree work at Indiana. Her
teachers included Sidney Foster, Hans Boepple and Zadel Skolovsky
and later Mary Sauer at Depaul University in Chicago.
Since joining the Butler University faculty in 1982 she has
established herself as a collaborative pianist in high demand, who
is equally at home with singers and instrumentalists.
Performing an average of fifty different recital programs a
year, she particularly enjoys intimate art song and chamber music
settings. She has appeared with the Scott Chamber Players,
the Linden String Quartet, the Ronen Ensemble, Fourte, and serves
as accompanist for the Meridian Song Project. In 1994,
through a program sponsored by the United States State Department,
she was part of a trio that toured the Middle East as Cultural
Ambassadors. She has also collaborated in performances at the
Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and at St. Martin-in-the-Fields
in London. In a series of three concerts in 2001-2002 she
collaborated with violinist Davis Brooks in the entire cycle of
Beethoven Sonatas. Catherine has been heard many times
as both soloist and collaborator with tenor Steven Stolen in live
performances with Dance Kaleidoscope as well as soloist in a
production of OLD WICKED SONGS with the Indiana Repertory
Theatre. Catherine has recorded several compact discs with
bassist, David Murray, bassist, Ju Fang Liu, mezzo soprano,
Katherine Kelton, and clarinetist, Howard Klug. Catherine
Bringerud serves as Coordinator of Accompanying at Butler
University Music School.
Please visit the Piano at Butler pages of the
website to learn more about piano and keyboard studies at Butler
University.
(317) 940-8700
cbringer@butler.edu