Pianist Katherine Collier is an active collaborator with many renowned musicians throughout this country and abroad. She has performed with such artists as Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, Chee-Yun, Cho-Liang Lin, Andres Cardenes, Jorja Fleezanis, Andres Diaz, Steven Doane, Robert deMaine, Desmond Hoebig, Edgar Meyer, James Dunham, David Shifrin, and members of the Tokyo, Emerson, Orion, Vermeer, Shanghai, Jupiter, Ying, and Miami String Quartets.

She has performed around the world and appeared at recital halls in Europe such as Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room (Southbank) in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Musikverein Brahms-Saal in Vienna, and the Konzertsaal der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. She has presented concerts at New York’s Merkin Hall, the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago, and the Y Music Society in Pittsburgh, among others. She has performed at the Aspen Music Festival, Interlochen, Meadowmount, Rockport and Orcas Island Festivals, and the International Music Festival of Pilsen, Czech Republic. She and her husband, violist Yizhak Schotten, are founders and music directors of the Maui Classical Music Festival in Hawaii and were music directors of the Strings Music Festival in Colorado for fifteen years.

A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, she was awarded the Performer’s Certificate, won the National Young Artists Competition and the National Cliburn Scholarship Competition, and received the Rockefeller Award. She also won a Kemper Educational Grant for postgraduate study at the Royal College of Music in London, England. Ms. Collier has been a soloist with numerous orchestras and is an active recording artist. She is on the University of Michigan faculty in Ann Arbor and tours extensively with her husband.