Bio

Catherine Shefski received her undergraduate degree from Smith College. After graduation, she enrolled in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England where she studied with Carola Grindea, founder of the European Piano Teacher’s Association (EPTA) and earned an LGSM Diploma in Piano Performance and Pedagogy. In 1982 she received her M. Mus. Degree in Piano Performance from New England Conservatory in Boston, MA.

Ms. Shefski has performed extensively as soloist, with chamber groups and as a member of the Philadelphia Piano Duo at venues including Carnegie Recital Hall, Jordan Hall, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, Stanford University, Ithaca College, York College, and Wilkes University.

A former faculty member of Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, Ms. Shefski has also held teaching positions at Wilkes Community Conservatory and Doylestown Community Conservatory. She currently teaches over forty piano students at her studio in Northeast Pennsylvania.

In addition to the adult students she’s worked with in person, Ms. Shefski previously taught online piano lessons through Piano-Mentor.com and worked with ‘virtual’ students from Alaska to Turkey.

Ms. Shefski has also been a clinician at the 2010 and 2011 PMTA Annual Conferences speaking about teaching the digital generation and creative performance opportunities.