“Kaarin is an artist and teacher of the highest caliber, with a rare combination of natural talent, hard-won skills, and professionalism. Her years of working with top-level conductors, choirs, and orchestras have given her very high standards of excellence; she wants and expects herself and her collaborators to be at their best, and is willing to put in the work to make that happen.”
The Record Studio offers the following services:
Most recently appearing as a keyboardist for the Broadway National Tour of ‘Wicked’ and for the Blumenthal’s longest-running show ‘Charlotte Squawks’, collaborative pianist Kaarin Record is both a 1992 and a 2018 graduate of world-renowned Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. As a two-time recipient of the Beatrice B. Pearman Endowed Scholarship, she most recently earned a Master of Piano in Accompanying and Coaching through WCC where she studied with esteemed collaborative pianist Dr. JJ Penna and focused on vocal techniques, diction, and dramatic presentation with directors from the Metropolitan Opera, Juilliard, and Oberlin; her undergraduate degree from WCC was completed in 1992 in Music Education, along with a certificate in Kodály training. For both degrees, she completed her coursework partially through Princeton University. In 2017, she was a semi-finalist for the 2018-2019 Fulbright U.S. Student Program, with her ethnomusicology-based proposal titled “The Multicultural SongBridge: A Musicultural Exchange Between South Africa and the U.S.” fully supported by the Department of Music at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Kaarin is the Collaborative Pianist on staff with Carolina Voices in Charlotte, NC; she also maintains an active performing schedule throughout the region.
Kaarin is sought after for collaborative piano engagements and vocal coaching because of her attention to expressiveness, diction detail, and character development.
The Record Studio began offering private piano instruction in 1992. Since then, Kaarin has been guiding emerging pianists in the art of creative and elegant musical expression combined with proven pedagogy. She is not currently accepting new students.
“Kaarin Record is equally blessed with both impeccable piano technique and masterful musicality. I have been blessed to work with her during the past three years and she is dependable and always prepared. Her most special attribute is a personality that makes working with her a load of fun. She is simply a consummate professional.”
