The pianist, Diane Kirkpatrick, is a native of the small town of Enon in rural Ohio and began her studies at the age of five. A few years later she began studies at the Conservatory at Wittenberg University some distance away in a larger town. After winning various prizes and competitions locally, Ms. Kirkpatrick continued her studies under full scholarship with Jerome Rose, Artist in Residence, at Bowling Green State University where she received a Bachelor of Music in piano performance. Ms. Kirkpatrick changed her plans to continue studies elsewhere when offered a teaching assistantship for a masters degree under Jerome Rose. After completing a Master of Music degree at Bowling Green State University, she moved to New York City where she won an audition at the Juilliard School of Music to perform weekly in master classes under Samuel Sanders which she continued for two years. Her primary teachers have included Mary Lou Krosnick, Audley Wasson, Robert Wynne, Robert Howatt, Elizabeth Cobb and Jerome Rose. She has played for many pianists in master class, such as Lorin Hollander, Leon Fleischer and Menahem Pressler, to name a few.
Ms. Kirkpatrick is a winner of the American Music Scholarship Association Competition which included a televised performance, WKRC Cincinnati, and top prizes in the National Foundation of Music Clubs Young Artists Awards. Publications and lectures include a talk on “Women in the Arts: A Symposium” and the monograph “Brahms' Poetic Character Pieces: Eight Clavierstucke, Opus 76”.
Ms. Kirkpatrick has performed throughout New York City in many concert venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, St. Peter's Church, Riverside Church, the Museum of the City of New York, the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Library and Levenson, Gershwin and Whitman Halls at Brooklyn College. She has performed with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra, the Dayton Symphony and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Her performances have continued with appearances throughout the United States and Europe. Most recently she has been on tour in Italy performing in the villages of Stellata, Bondeno, Cesana and Orvieto.
An established musician in New York City, Ms. Kirkpatrick has taught at the College of New Rochelle, Bergen Community College, the Brooklyn Music School, the Roosa School of Music and maintains a private studio in Brooklyn.
Ms. Kirkpatrick is currently on the faculty of Brooklyn College and the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at the Mannes College of Music.
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