Catherine Vickers

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]