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Rachelle McCabe

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Rachelle McCabe

Professor of Music, Director of Piano Activities
Department of Music
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
Phone:541-737-5597
Fax:541-737-4268
E-mail: rmccabe@oregonstate.edu


Brief Vita


Rachelle McCabe, concert pianist and professor of music at Oregon State University, enjoys an international career as artist-teacher and is well known to audiences throughout the Pacific Northwest where she appears frequently as a solo recitalist and highly respected chamber musician. McCabe has performed extensively in the United States, Canada, Southeast Asia and England. In addition to solo piano recitals in Singapore, Cambridge (UK), Malaysia, Seattle, Atlanta, Detroit, Portland, Ore., and Washington, D.C., she has been heard on NPR's Performance Today, the CBC, and PBS television. As concerto soloist she has played with many North American orchestras including the Seattle, Pittsburgh, Oregon and Victoria symphonies. She is also a frequent soloist with the Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra. McCabe has appeared in many summer festivals including the Victoria International Festival, The Johanessen Summer School of the Arts, The Highlands Festival in North Carolina, Chamber Music Northwest and the Chintimini Chamber Music Festival. She adjudicated in the annual Hong Kong Piano Festival in 2008. As artist in residence at LaSalle, a school of the arts in Singapore, she was named an affiliate artist of the school. She is also an experienced harpsichordist and fortepianist.

At Oregon State University, Rachelle McCabe directs the piano program and teaches the music history sequence for undergraduate music majors. She is director of the OSU Steinway Piano Concert Series as well as the bi-annual Piano Power! camps for high school piano students in Oregon. On the basis of outstanding teaching, she was named a master teacher in the College of Liberal Arts. She holds a doctorate (D.M.A.) from The University of Michigan where she studied with Theodore Lettvin and Gyorgy Sandor, a master's degree from The Juilliard School where she studied with Ania Dorfmann, and a bachelor's degree from The University of Washington where she studied with Bela Siki.  



 

Reviews

  • McCabe's reading of Bartok's "Improvisations" displayed a true affinity for the eclectic Bartokian style… Debussy's "Estampes" was a model of limpid understatement, always delivered with taste…
    ---Atlanta Constitution
  • Rachelle McCabe is an elegant pianist, a considerable mistress of the keyboard and an artist who possesses both fine musical intelligence and intense feeling… She gave Ravel's "Valses nobles et sentimentales" a mesmerizing reading of exceptional concentration, characterized by a marvelously natural sense of rubato, which never sounded calculated or forced.
    ---Victoria Times
  • Her technique and interpretation in Mendelssohn's G minor Concerto were brilliant.
    --Seattle Times
  • McCabe's passionate but tightly controlled technique is more than equal to the complex palette of light and dark that Schubert demands.
    --The Oregonian