Catherine Vickers is a Canadian

Canada

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 pianist, born in Regina

Regina, Saskatchewan

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.

She won the 1979 Concorso Busoni and was awarded the 1981 Sydney Competition

Sydney International Piano Competition

The Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia is a music competition, presented by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in association with the University of Sydney and broadcast live throughout Australia. It is held every four years, over a three-week period in July-August, and is...

's 3rd prize. Vickers subsequently settled in Germany, where she is a professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts

Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts

The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts is a state Hochschule for Music, Theater and Dance in Frankfurt and is the only one of its kind in the Federal State of Hesse. It was founded in 1938....

 and the artistic director of an electronics-piano festival (Piano+) at Karlsruhe's Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

The Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany is an interdisciplinary art museum and research institution focusing on new media....

(Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie). She is known for her work at the contemporary music scene.