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, Berkshire Eagle) pianist Katherine Dowling performs across North America and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician, earning high praise from publications including The Times (London).

Katherine is familiar to audiences as an artist-in-residence at the Orlando Festival (Netherlands) and a resident fellow of the Avaloch Farm Music Institute (USA); as a multi-year fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, a New Fromm Fellow, and a Britten-Pears Young Artist; through extensive involvement and numerous positions at The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity; and through multiple national tours under the auspices of the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition. As a soloist, and as a member of the chamber ensemble Gruppo Montebello, Katherine appears on eight critically-acclaimed recordings on the Etcetera label. Her performances have been broadcast on the CBC (Canada), Radio-Canada, BBC (United Kingdom), and National Radio 4 (Netherlands). Recent highlights include joining Angela Hewitt and Silvie Cheng in Mozart’s Triple Concerto at Ottawa Chamberfest; her recital debuts in Vienna and The Hague; several tours with violinist Kerry DuWors for Prairie Debut; a recording of the piano works of Alice Ping-Yee Ho (Leaf Music label); and appearing as a concerto soloist with orchestra in repertoire including Benjamin Britten, W.A. Mozart, Colin McPhee, and Florence Price. She has premiered over twenty-five new works by composers including Louis Andriessen and John Harbison.

As a teaching artist, Katherine formerly served as Assistant Professor of Piano Performance (tenure-track) at the University of Regina. She is currently on faculty at The Phil and Eli Taylor Academy for Young Artists (Royal Conservatory of Music); duo526 Sonata Seminar (Indiana University Jacobs School of Music); and the European Summer Course for Chamber Music (Netherlands). She is in-demand as an adjudicator and judge, ranging from the Laflèche & District Music Festival (population 382) to the National Finals of the Canimex-Canadian Music Competition and the Toronto International Music Competition, and everything in between. She credits her own teacher, celebrated American pianist-pedagogue Gilbert Kalish, and conductors Henk Guittart and Oliver Knussen, as the major influences in her musical life.

Doctor of Musical Arts (Piano Performance), Stony Brook University (New York) Master of Music (Piano Performance), University of Toronto
Bachelor of Music (Piano Performance), University of British Columbia