Lisa
M. Reynolds,
Collaborative PianistLisa Reynolds is a well known collaborative pianist in the Louisville, Kentucky, and southern Indiana area. She holds a Master of Music in Piano Performance from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she was awarded a Graduate Fellowship, and a Bachelor of Music with Honors and High Distinction from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She also studied piano at the Interlochen National Music Camp and the Aspen Music Festival and School. Her piano teachers include Enrica Cavallo-Gulli, Walter Robert, Sylvia Wang, Joanna Goldstein, Michel Block, and Louis Nagel.
An experienced accompanist, Ms. Reynolds has collaborated extensively with instrumental and voice students at Indiana University Southeast, the University of Louisville, and each school or summer festival she has attended. She has accompanied recitals, lessons, masterclasses, juries, and auditions for students of Franco Gulli, Janos Starker, Helga Winold, Clara Bartow, Walter Cassell, Camilla Williams, Margaret Harshaw, Kathy Karr, and others. She has accompanied and sung in numerous school, community theater, and church choirs. She has also provided service music for several churches, including First Unitarian Church of Louisville.
Ms. Reynolds is an avid chamber music player. She studied chamber music at Indiana University, Northwestern University, and Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, where she first attended on scholarship and now serves on the staff each summer. Her chamber music coaches include Sylvia Wang, Joanna Goldstein, Rohan Gregory, Richard “Dobbs” Hartshorne, Myriam Teie, Gretchen Pusch, Gregory Hesselink, Iris Jortner, Jean Schneider and John Steinmetz. She is a member of Chamber Music America and the international Amateur Chamber Music Players network.
Ms. Reynolds has a special interest in performing chamber music for
piano and strings, music by living composers, music for more than one pianist, and music by women
composers from all time periods. Information about living and historical women composers is available from the International Alliance for Women in
Music (IAWM).