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"If I’ve successfully caused someone to stop and be authentically stirred, then that’s my finest moment.”

-Cathy Fuller

Cathy Fuller

Whether in the radio booth, the classroom, or on stage, Cathy Fuller has always infused her talents as pianist and educator into her work.

Fuller, passionate about radio, became a member of the WGBH team in 2000, producing live classical performances, hosting Classics in the Morning, coordinating programming, and acting as classical liaison with the community. From 1998 to 2000, she was heard nationwide on the World Classical Network and in Boston on WCRB. In her early days in radio, she served as Classical Director and host for three years at NPR affiliate WICN in Worcester.

A professor of piano, Fuller has served on the faculties of the University of Massachusetts/Lowell, Clark University and the Longy School of Music. She continues to teach privately, and does guest lectures and pre-concert talks on music for universities and concert organizations including the Celebrity Series of Boston. She enjoys engaging audiences as a “talking pianist,” inviting concert-goers into a more rewarding and active kind of listening.

Winning the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Young ArtistsCompetitionat the age of 16,Fuller made her debut shortly afterwards in Symphony Hall with Schumann’s Piano Concertoin A Minor, Harry Ellis Dickson conducting. She has won numerous awards for her artistry, including first prize in the Concord (Massachusetts) Orchestra’s Young Artists Competition. She was also first-prize winner for two consecutive years at the New England Conservatory in the prestigious Piano Honors Competition: first in the Beethoven category and then in the 20th century category.

As a pianist, Fuller has performed in recitals throughout New England, Canada and France. A champion of new music, she has participated in many world premiere performances, and appears on a CD of works by Wesley Fuller and Thomas DeLio on 3D Records of Paris. Fuller continues to perform as a recitalist and chamber musician.

A native of West Boylston, Massachusetts, she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Piano Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music. She is immensely proud of her two daughters, Alexandra and Samantha. She lives north of Boston with her younger daughter and her partner, pianist Marc-André Hamelin.