Tina Gorter

Dr. Tina Gorter is an active collaborative pianist performing regularly with faculty, choirs, and guest artists at Western Michigan University Irving S. Gilmore School of Music and is also the Assistant Director and pianist for the Kalamazoo Male Chorus. Her recent collaborative performances include the Thunder Bay Arts Performance Series, South Haven Performance Series, Southwest Michigan Vocal Festival, Grand Rapids Opera, Ad Astra Music Festival, Voces8, and Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Trombonist Jamie Box. She regularly presents collaborative performance workshops and serves as a clinician and adjudicator for festivals and competitions throughout Michigan.

Along with an active performing career, Dr. Gorter teaches piano at Crescendo Academy of Music in Kalamazoo and 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. This fast-growing initiative creates more chamber music opportunities for young musicians within their schools and in the community. She has recently been named the Director for the Kalamazoo Chamber Music Workshop and has also served as a vocal coach and music director for the operas scenes program at Interlochen Center for the Arts Camp including vocalists at the collegiate level.

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