Heather Jeanne Conner

Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Steinway Artist Dr. Heather Conner is Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Utah. As a recitalist, Heather has performed in many prestigious venues, such as Steinway Hall in New York City. She has also presented solo recitals in Philadelphia, New Haven, Moscow, Salzburg, Seoul, Greenville (SC), Stillwater and Oklahoma City, (OK), and Salt Lake City. An avid chamber musician, Heather has appeared in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and the Glenn Gould Studios in Toronto. Heather has won Grand Prizes at several international and national competitions including Grand Prizes at the First Hilton Head Island International Piano Competition and the Kingsville International Young Performers Competition, and has performed on numerous occasions as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Heather is a regular artist at the Niagara International Chamber Music Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, and a frequent artist performer with America’s Dream Chamber Artists. In 2006, she appeared as recitalist and artist teacher at several venues in Seoul, South Korea. In 2003 she completed her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in piano performance at the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Arkady Aronov.  Under the guidance of renowned pianist Peter Frankl, Heather received her Master of Music degree from the Yale University School of Music. Heather received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1997, where she studied with the distinguished piano pedagogue Eleanor Sokoloff for five years.