Catherine Rollin is an active pianist, composer, clinician and teacher of prize-winning students. Her more than 200 published pedagogical compositions are recognized worldwide for their combination of musicality and teachability. In demand as a clinician and masterclass presenter, Catherine has given over 150 workshops including a seven city tour of Japan in 2006 that featured the technical insights of her Pathways to Artistry series as well as a wide variety of her solo and duet collections. Her technical ideas are groundbreaking in the field of piano pedagogy and have helped to demystify the skills that are needed to play artistically and with relaxation. With the Pathways to Artistry series, Catherine has demonstrated that these concepts are accessible and applicable to pianists at all levels.
A native of Detroit, Michigan, Rollin received her pre-college training with Mischa Kottler, himself a disciple of Cortot and von Sauer, the latter a pupil of Liszt. Rollin holds the BMA degree with distinction from U. of Michigan and the MM from Oakland U. In 2002, Oakland University distinguished Ms. Rollin with its 2002 Alumni Arts Achievement Award. Among her many national and international presentations, Catherine has been featured in sessions at the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) 2006 conference as well as sessions sponsored by the Ohio, Kansas, Massachusetts, Utah, South Carolina, Illinois, California, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Texas Music Teachers Associations and numerous other MTNA national conferences. Additionally, she has been featured at a wide variety of prestigious piano institutes including the National Piano Teacher Institute (NPTI), Pedagogy Saturdays (Westminster Choir College) and the Goshen Piano Teachers Workshop,
Catherine Rollin was featured in both the April 2005 and April 2006 issues of Clavier Magazine. She has also been commissioned by CLAVIER MAGAZINE. Other commissions include: a joint commission by the Michigan Music Teachers Association and the Music Teachers National Association as well as those from Goshen College; The Midland Music Teachers Association; The Hattiesburg, Mississippi Music Teachers Association; The Topeka and Northeast Kansas Music Teachers Association and The Ohio Music Teachers Association (OMTA )Southwest District. Her Concerto Romantique, commissioned by the OMTA has been orchestrated and was featured with the Warren Symphony with one of Ms. Rollin's students as soloist. Numerous works of Ms. Rollin have been featured on lists for piano events in both the U.S. and Canada. She currently has pieces in the solo, duet, and concerto categories of the National Federation of Music Clubs Bulletin. Ms. Rollin has also judged on the national level for the Music Teachers National Association and the Lynn Freeman Olson Composition Competition.
Catherine Rollin's students have won numerous awards at the state and national levels. One of her piano students was honored to be among seven national finalists in the MTNA Junior High School Performance Competition in 2004. That student just recently won the first prize award at the 2007 Seoul, Korea Performing Arts H.S. auditions. Another student was the youngest semi-finalist to make it to the second round of the Oberlin Piano Competition in the summer of 2006. Her students have been first place winners at all three levels of the performance competition sponsored by the MMTA (Michigan Music Teachers Association) including a first place high school winner in the 2007 MMTA competition. Her students have been featured on numerous occasions at the state convention of MMTA as well as by the Steinway Society. They have also been featured with several orchestras including the Ft. Worth Chamber Orchestra, The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Warren Symphony, the Rochester Symphony and the Pontiac Oakland Symphony. Ms. Rollin's students have won state, regional and national first place awards in the National Federation of Music Club's (NFMC) composition competition. One of her students recently received a national award from the NFMC in the spring of 2007.
