BIO
Award-winning pianist Katherine Harris Rick made her solo debut at age nine in her hometown of Yakutsk, Siberia, winning the Republic of Yakutia Competition for Young Pianists. She went on to gather accolades from international competitions in six countries, performing across the Ukraine, Belarussia, Canada, the United States, Russia, Poland, and France. Among the competitions in which she received awards are the World Piano Competition (Cincinnati, OH), the Rachmaninoff Competition for Young Pianists (Veliki Novgorod, Russia) and the International Russian Music Piano Competition (San Jose, CA). She has also played in several internationally known venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York City), the Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.), and the Small Philharmonic Hall (St. Petersburg, Russia).
Dr. Rick has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Polish Music Festival Orchestra (Zamość, Poland), the Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra (Los Angeles, CA), Southwestern Youth Music Festival Orchestra (Los Angeles, CA) and the Cobb Symphony Orchestra (Marietta, GA). In 2011, she became a founding member of The Russian Trio, with Nikita Borisevich (violin) and Dmitry Volkov (cello). The trio was recipient of numerous awards, including top prizes at the Chesapeake Bay Chamber Music Competition (2012), the Coleman Chamber Music Competition (2013), and the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition (2014).
Dr. Rick was given a full scholarship to Azusa Pacific University when she was only fifteen years old—the youngest student ever to enter the university. Subsequently, she was offered a full graduate assistantship in accompanying at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and graduated with her Master of Music in 2011. In 2014, she graduated as a Doctor of Musical Arts from Peabody, having held a full graduate assistantship there in Keyboard Studies. She has been privileged to perform in masterclasses with some of the greats of today’s pianistic world, such as Leon Fleisher, Dinna Joffe and Naum Shtarkman, and her most influential teachers have included Alexander Shtarkman, Marina Lomazov, Natalya Reznik, Antoinette Perry and Pavel Nersessian.
Dr. Rick is married to Rev. Adam Rick and currently serves as adjunct piano instructor and accompanist at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan.
Award-winning pianist Katherine Harris Rick made her solo debut at age nine in her hometown of Yakutsk, Siberia, winning the Republic of Yakutia Competition for Young Pianists. She went on to gather accolades from international competitions in six countries, performing across the Ukraine, Belarussia, Canada, the United States, Russia, Poland, and France. Among the competitions in which she received awards are the World Piano Competition (Cincinnati, OH), the Rachmaninoff Competition for Young Pianists (Veliki Novgorod, Russia) and the International Russian Music Piano Competition (San Jose, CA). She has also played in several internationally known venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York City), the Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.), and the Small Philharmonic Hall (St. Petersburg, Russia).
Dr. Rick has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Polish Music Festival Orchestra (Zamość, Poland), the Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra (Los Angeles, CA), Southwestern Youth Music Festival Orchestra (Los Angeles, CA) and the Cobb Symphony Orchestra (Marietta, GA). In 2011, she became a founding member of The Russian Trio, with Nikita Borisevich (violin) and Dmitry Volkov (cello). The trio was recipient of numerous awards, including top prizes at the Chesapeake Bay Chamber Music Competition (2012), the Coleman Chamber Music Competition (2013), and the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition (2014).
Dr. Rick was given a full scholarship to Azusa Pacific University when she was only fifteen years old—the youngest student ever to enter the university. Subsequently, she was offered a full graduate assistantship in accompanying at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and graduated with her Master of Music in 2011. In 2014, she graduated as a Doctor of Musical Arts from Peabody, having held a full graduate assistantship there in Keyboard Studies. She has been privileged to perform in masterclasses with some of the greats of today’s pianistic world, such as Leon Fleisher, Dinna Joffe and Naum Shtarkman, and her most influential teachers have included Alexander Shtarkman, Marina Lomazov, Natalya Reznik, Antoinette Perry and Pavel Nersessian.
Dr. Rick is married to Rev. Adam Rick and currently serves as adjunct piano instructor and accompanist at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan.