Piano
Bethany Brooks is a freelance pianist and piano teacher in the greater Philadelphia area. She holds the Bachelor of Music in piano performance from Houghton College in Houghton, NY, where she studied with Dr. Dolores Gadevsky. She also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she earned the Master of Music in piano performance as a student of Ian Fountain and the LRAM piano teaching licentiate.
Bethany has played in master classes of Gilbert Kalish, Katsunori Ishii, Santiago Rodriguez, and others. She was a prizewinner in the 2001 Bartok-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev International Piano Competition, where she performed for György Sándor. In addition to recent solo performances of classical and sacred music in Odessa, Istanbul, and Mexico City, Bethany sings and plays regularly with a Philadelphia-based folk/Americana band. She has also served as staff pianist at the Crescendo Summer Institute of the Arts, held in Sárospatak, Hungary.
She has been part of Tenth Presbyterian Church since 2004 and is active in the music program, as a Sunday School teacher for 9th & 10th grade, and on the Global Outreach Commission. Current involvements outside of Tenth include writing music reviews for the Gospel & Culture Project and volunteering as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for a child in foster care.
Bethany was a camper at Csehy from 1993-1996. This will be the fourth summer in which she serves as a member of the Csehy faculty.