Robert Satterlee

About Robert

Pianist Robert Satterlee has developed a reputation as an accomplished and versatile solo recitalist and chamber musician. He plays regularly throughout the United States, delighting audiences with his incisive and imaginative performances. He has appeared on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, San Francisco’s Old First Concert Series, the Schubert Club in Minnesota, the Music Teachers National Association national conferences, the Quad Cities Mozart Festival and many colleges and universities.

He regularly performs in China, including concerts in Beijing, Shenyang, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Harbin and Nanjing. Satterlee has played concerts at the new Romanian-American Festival in Romania and the World Piano Conference in Serbia. He was a featured performer at the Piano Plus Festival and the Corfu Festival in Greece and has also performed in Sweden, Holland, Germany, Thailand and Kenya, as well as in radio broadcasts throughout the United States, most notably on Minnesota Public Radio and WFMT in Chicago.

Music of our time plays an important role in Satterlee’s performing activity. In 2006 he toured the US with a program of composer Frederic Rzewski's works, including a new piece specially written for the tour, and has released a CD of his works on the Naxos label. The CD garnered glowing reviews, and was selected by the New York Times as one of the outstanding classical recordings of 2014. His most recent CD, with music of Rzewski and William Albright, was released on the Blue Griffin label February 2015.

Satterlee’s avid interest in chamber music has led him to collaborate with members of the Chicago, London, Philadelphia and Detroit Symphony Orchestras in chamber music performances, and he was co-artistic director of Chamber Music Quad Cities, an organization presenting a concert series and music festival in Iowa and Illinois.

Satterlee was appointed in the fall of 1998 to the piano faculty of Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

One of the greatest joys of my life is exploring the amazing repertoire written for piano with students. I strive to help students develop the necessary tools to understand the musical, technical, emotional, spiritual and historical aspects of the repertoire being studied with the goal of greater insight and artistic validity in performance. I also want them to become independent learners, so they can practice efficiently and grow as musicians without my assistance.