Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Katherine Miller is an active solo pianist and chamber musician in New York City. She has performed at some of the world’s most prestigious halls including the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as well as Boston’s Jordan Hall as laureate of NEC’s Piano Honors Competition and the American Protégé competition. Additional honors include the Suffolk Piano Teachers Forum Prize, Steinway Award from Mannes School of Music, Ashley Schiff Preserve Scholarship, and Stony Brook University’s concerto competition, which resulted in her performance of Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto with the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra in February 2024.

A fierce advocate of new music, Katherine has been involved in the premiere of dozens of new works for solo piano and varied ensembles. In 2024, Katherine founded Concurrent Duo with percussionist Ignacio Corrales and performed their NYC debut concert in November 2025. Concurrent Duo will participate as ensemble fellows at New Music on the Point in the summer of 2026, premiering student compositions and workshopping several commissions in progress. As a solo pianist, Katherine has been invited to participate at several festivals and conferences including the Bang on a Can Summer festival, Yarn/Wire Institute, Women Composers Festival of Hartford and the Music by Women Conference in Mississippi, where she lectured on timelessness and trauma in Galina Ustvolskaya’s piano preludes. In summer 2026, she will serve as the Resident Piano Fellow at Cortona Sessions in Ede, Netherlands. In addition to her extensive performing and teaching activities, Katherine founded and directs a monthly chamber music and cocktail pairing series in Long Island City called Aperitono, presenting four concerts in spring 2026.

This season, Katherine is thrilled to be a part of numerous collaborations, presenting iconic works including Stockhausen’s Kontakte, Faure’s La Bonne Chanson, Schubert’s Winterreise, among many others. She will also appear as soloist in George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra in april 2026.

Katherine earned her Bachelor of Music degree from New England Conservatory where she studied with Bruce Brubaker and her Master of Music degree from Mannes College of Music studying with Thomas Sauer. She recently completed her Doctor of Musical Arts at Stony Brook University where she studied with Christina Dahl, presenting Chopin's Preludes op. 28 and selections from Messiaen's Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jesus as her dissertation recital. Her other significant teachers include dina khudayberdieva and arkady aronov.