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Catherine Vickers (born 1952 in Regina) is a Canadian pianist.
Vickers studied in Edmonton [1] and then in Germany with Bernhard Ebert and Hans Leygraf at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. [2] She won the 1979 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and was awarded the 1981 Sydney Competition's [2] 3rd prize.
As a classical pianist she performed in Europe, North and South America and Asia, [2] [3] her repertoire includes standard and avantgardistic works of the piano literature. [1] Vickers subsequently settled in Germany, where she was a professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts and then at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts from 1998 to 2018. [3] She also was the artistic director of an electronics-piano festival (Piano+) at Karlsruhe's Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie). [4] She is known for her work at the contemporary music scene. [3]
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Catherine Vickers (born 1952 in Regina) is a Canadian pianist.
Vickers studied in Edmonton [1] and then in Germany with Bernhard Ebert and Hans Leygraf at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover. [2] She won the 1979 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and was awarded the 1981 Sydney Competition's [2] 3rd prize.
As a classical pianist she performed in Europe, North and South America and Asia, [2] [3] her repertoire includes standard and avantgardistic works of the piano literature. [1] Vickers subsequently settled in Germany, where she was a professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts and then at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts from 1998 to 2018. [3] She also was the artistic director of an electronics-piano festival (Piano+) at Karlsruhe's Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie). [4] She is known for her work at the contemporary music scene. [3]