Kathryn Felt, DMA

Artistic Director / Piano

Dr. Kathryn Felt is a Costa Rican-American pianist and educator whose work integrates performance, research, and advocacy. She has performed at leading venues including Lincoln Center and Koerner Hall, and with ensembles such as the Delaware Symphony, The Juilliard Orchestra, Reading Symphony Orchestra, and New World Symphony. Dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices, she serves on the board of the International Alliance for Women in Music. She is the author of a recent article on protofeminist aesthetics in the piano works of Mélanie Bonis and presented this research at the 2025 Joint Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) and the Society for Music Theory (SMT).

She holds degrees from Rice University (BM), The Juilliard School (MM in Collaborative Piano), and Rutgers University (DMA in Piano Performance, under the tutelage of the late John Perry). Since 2023, Dr. Felt has served as a lecturer at Rutgers University in the music history department.