Biography
Bette Coulson, instructor,music, piano, pedagogy, piano ensemble has played solo and is a performing member of a piano duo and piano quartet. She teaches piano classes, piano pedagogy, private lessons and piano ensemble at Columbia College Chicago.As a college student and twice a contest winner, Bette gave her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing the Aram Khachaturian concerto. She was also finalist in the L.M. Gottschalk contest in New Orleans and the Rockefeller American Music Contest in St. Louis. Her degrees are from the Chicago Conservatory of Music (M.M.) Chicago with Harold Berlinger and the American Conservatory of music with Aletta Tenold (student of Rosina Lehvinne, New York). Post college study of contemporary music was with William Browning.Bette was on the faculty of Northeastern University teaching pedagogy and private lessons and is currently with Columbia College Chicago (having served as interim piano coordinator). Bette and Evelyn Binz give concerts of one and two pianos and a CD of their duet concert at the 4th Presbyterian Church, Michigan Ave, 2015, is available. They are also the founders of the Fran Randall Concert Series for college students at the Levy Center in Evanston. Bette and Evelyn were honored (Feb.2018) with a plaque put on the Honor Donor Wall at the Levy center in Evanston for their founding and managing the acclaimed Fran Randall Memorial Concert Series
American Conservatory of Music B.M.
Chicago Conservatory of Music M.M.
post graduate studies Northeastern U.
Instructional Areas
Piano, pedagogy, piano ensemble
Creative Practice and Research Interests
Developing keyboard classes for all ages and promoting piano ensemble.
Degrees
B.M., Piano American Conservatory of Music 1966
M.M., Piano American Conservatory of Music 1969