Tina Gorter

Dr. Tina Gorter is a professional collaborative pianist who currently serves as an adjunct piano professor at the University of Notre Dame. She also holds a position as the Collaborative Outreach Coordinator for Fontana Chamber Arts in Kalamazoo, MI. It is through this position that she has developed a collaborative piano program in select public schools for intermediate to advanced students which creates more chamber music opportunities for young musicians within their schools and in the community. She has served as a vocal coach and music director for the opera scenes program at Interlochen Center for the Arts Camp, as well as vocalists at the collegiate level. As a piano instructor, she teaches solo piano and collaborative piano at Gilmore Piano Camp and has served on the faculty teaching Beginning Piano and as a chamber music coach at SEMINAR, WMU’s high school summer music camp.

Along with teaching, she has performed on the concert stage as the pianist for the Southwest Michigan Vocal Festival, Grand Rapids Opera, Ad Astra Music Festival, and the internationally recognized vocal ensemble Voces8.

Along with an active performing career, she regularly serves as a clinician and adjudicator for music workshops, festivals, and competitions throughout Michigan.

Tina Gorter holds a D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano from Michigan State University, an M.M. in Piano Performance with an emphasis in Collaborative Performance from Western Michigan University, and a B.M. from the University of Montana.