Catherine Bundt

Catherine Anne Bundt is a graduate of the UBC Piano Performance program where she studied with Jane Coop and participated in master classes with Fanny Waterman, Menahem Pressler, Elly Ameling and Rudolf Jansen. She was a full scholarship student at the Banff International Centre for the Performing Arts where she studied with Marek Jablonski and later completed two years of further studies with Lee Kum-Sing, again at UBC.

Catherine is a teacher, Senior RCM examiner, and adjudicator who strongly believes in the value of music in children’s lives and sees teaching music as giving young students ‘a gift for life’.

She’s been a BC Registered Music Teacher since 1985, and served several terms on the South Fraser branch executive council and festival committees. In an attempt to make music accessible and affordable to her local community, Catherine has also hosted more than 35 ‘house concerts’ in her home, featuring performing artists from universities and music schools in BC and Alberta.

Catherine is a member of the Canadian Music Festival Adjudicators’ Association and has adjudicated over 50 festivals, and given and workshops throughout the province. She is also a senior examining member of the Royal Conservatory of Music, College of Examiners (since 2014) and has examined students across Canada and the USA. She’s privileged to be on faculty at the Penticton Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts .