Marie-Louise CatsalisFaculty Piano, Harpsichord, Music HistoryIn 1989 Marie-Louise Catsalis studied piano with Marek Jablonski in Toronto, Canada, and performed in master-classes at the Guelph Spring Festival, Royal Conservatorium of Music, Toronto, and the Montreal International Music Festival. In 1990 she attended the International Summer School in Bergamo, Italy, on scholarship, and was chosen as soloist with the Orchestra Stabile di Bergamo for three concert engagements in Northern Italy, playing Shostakovich's 1st piano concerto. In 1993, Catsalis completed the repetiteur's course at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music Opera School, and was chosen to represent Australia at the voice and piano program in the Pacific Music Festival in Saporo, Japan. Whilst there she gave recitals with the chamber soloists of the Vienna Philharmonic and Santa Celica Cecilia Orchestras as well as playing in the festival's orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas, and working with composer Lou Harrison. In 1998 she completed a Master of Music (Honours) at the University of New England, specializing in Italian baroque vocal music, after having researched and studied harpsichord in Italy, with the help of a scholarship from the Frederick May Foundation. This led to her doctoral studies in the serenatas of Alessandro Scarlatti at the University of Newcastle, Australia, which was conferred in 2005. In 2000, she studied at the University of Angers, France, and took up an apprenticeship with the Opera company of Nantes. In 2002 Marie-Louise Catsalis was awarded an Italian Government Scholarship, studying at the University of Siena. She has studied with such conductors as Simon Kenway, Patrick Thomas in Australia and Bruno Aprea in Rome. She has had experience conducting many genres of music and works with singers in such varied forms as Early Music, Recital Repertoire, Oratorio, Opera, Cabaret and Music Theatre. At the tertiary level, previously Marie-Louise Catsalis has taught applied piano, accompaniment (University of Sydney, Wesley Institute) and opera workshop (University of Newcastle), as well as being staff accompanist (Wesley Institute, University of Newcastle). At North Carolina Central University she was program coordinator for the degree in music education, teaching methodology courses in K-12 music education as well as teaching piano, conducting and lyric diction. Courses taught at SCU include music history, applied piano, piano class, as well as serving as accompanist. Publications: 2004, 'The Eighteenth Century Italian Serenata: a Movable Feast' in Music Research: new directions for a new century, ed. M. Ewans, R. Halton and J.A. Phillips, Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge (in process) Dialogo: Zeffiro e Mergellina, an edition and recording of an anonymous 17th century vocal work, Web library of Seventeenth Century Music http://aaswebsv.aas.duke.edu/wlscm/ Conference papers: Symposium of the International Musicological Society, Society for Eighteenth Century Music, Musicological Society of Australia, Society for Seventeenth Century Music, American Handel Society, American Musicological Society (annual meeting and South-Eastern Chapter) South Eastern Historical Keyboard Society |
