Mary Rodriguez, piano

Mary is a sought-after soloist, chamber musician, pedagogue and adjudicator. Highlights as a student include performing in masterclasses for Leon Fleisher at the Cleveland Institute of Music, John Perry at the Montecito International Music Festival, and Imogen Cooper at the Gilmore Festival. She also appeared as a piano soloist with the Wheaton College Symphony Orchestra and the Lake Forest Symphony Orchestra, and performed Sarasate's famous "Zigeunerweisen" on violin for Rachel Barton Pine at the Chicago Cultural Center.

More recently, Mary has been featured as a performing artist on concert series at Oakland University, the Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts and Wheaton College Conservatory. An avid chamber musician she was one of the founding members of the Brahms' Ghost Trio, which toured California in 2016. This past year, Mary has co-founded Pear Tree and Partridge, with friend and colleague Laura Randall. The duo of renaissance women share a passion for bringing art and beauty into conversation with the rhythms and routines of everyday life. Their coast to coast collaborations include live concerts, blogs, poetry, recipes and pictures. Their website aims to create a virtual space for artistic reflection and personal rejuvenation.

This past October Mary released her debut album of solo piano music, featuring the complete keyboard partitas of J. S. Bach and a newly commissioned work by Josh Rodriguez, entitled Partita Picosa. The 3-CD set also includes a theological reflection written by Kevin Vanhoozer, which explores how Bach integrates his faith into his partitas.

Mary received her Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Music under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Shapiro in 2013. She currently serves as adjunct professor of piano at the Collinsworth School of Music at California Baptist University.

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