LINDA KOBLER BIOGRAPHY, MM

Linda Kobler has pioneered the field of internet distance learning with her course, Introduction to Music. She is a professional musician, writer, and teacher, who has served on the faculty of The Juilliard School in New York City, among other institutions. Ms. Kobler has appeared as harpsichord soloist and chamber musician in America and abroad. She was a winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and the recipient of the 1990 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society. The latter award was given in recognition of Seicento Cembalo, Ms. Kobler's second CD recording, which was notable for being the first recording to make extensive and bold use of improvisation in early Italian keyboard music. Her first CD, French Harpsichord Music of the 18th Century, for Musical Heritage Society, featured the works of Christopher Moyreau, never before recorded, and won her accolades in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Linda Kobler has also been active in contemporary American harpsichord music, and has premiered pieces written especially for her by Vincent Persichetti and Pulitzer-Prize winner, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

Educated at Peabody Conservatory, The Juilliard School, and City University of New York, Linda Kobler pursued degrees in harpsichord, piano and musicology. As an author, Linda Kobler has written for a wide variety of sources, including the Garland Encyclopedia of the Keyboard, various specialty journals, SONY Classical and Carnegie Hall. She has also done on-air commentary for National Public Radio.

EDUCATION

Master of Music - The Juilliard School - 1977

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