Lisa Rehwoldt

Lisa Rehwoldt holds the degrees of Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, and the Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance with a minor in music history from Oberlin College.  She counts among her distinguished teachers Lana Bodnar, Joseph Schwartz, Paul Schenly, Theodore Lettvin, and Ellen Mack.

Dr. Rehwoldt has served on the music faculty of Howard Community College since 2000, teaching music theory, ear training, music literature, music appreciation, piano class, and applied piano lessons.  She also serves on the faculty at Notre Dame of Maryland University.  Rehwoldt has previously taught at CCBC Essex, held a teaching assistantship at Peabody Conservatory, and taught under the auspices of the student teaching program at Oberlin Conservatory.  At the 1999 CUNY Graduate Students in Music Symposium in New York City, Rehwoldt presented the topic Schoenberg Amidst the “Brahms Fog”: The Significance of Brahms to the Formation of Atonality. A 2004 recipient of the Maryland State Music Teachers Association Judith A. Ferencz Teaching Grant, Rehwoldt is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, Mu Phi Epsilon, and the Music Teachers National Association.  She is active as master class teacher, competition adjudicator, and private teacher.

Rehwoldt, a native of Santa Barbara, California, made her debut with the Santa Barbara Symphony at the age of twelve as first prize winner in the Santa Barbara Young Soloists Competition.  She has since made numerous appearances with orchestra, including the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Maria Symphony, the Rainier Symphony in Seattle, Washington, and the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra in the San Francisco Bay Area.  A top prizewinner in the Westminster Graduate Piano Competition in Princeton, New Jersey, the Young Musicians Foundation Competition at Ohio State University, and the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competition in California, Rehwoldt also received honors in the Dorthy Anderson International Competition in Seattle and the Young Keyboard Artists International Competition at the University of Michigan.  She has been chosen to perform as soloist in the master classes of such renowned artists as Konrad Wolff, Paul Schenly, Jerome Lowenthal, William Race, Jane Allen, and Lili Kraus, who praised Rehwoldt for “the joy she brings in her playing.”  A scholarship recipient to the Music Academy of the West, Rehwoldt has appeared as soloist in the Baltimore-Washington area at Baltimore’s University Baptist Church Concert Series, Sundays at Three in Columbia, and on the Rising Star Concert Series in McLean, Virginia.

As chamber musician, Rehwoldt has appeared on the Music in the Mansion series at Strathmore Hall, the BSO series Chamber Music by Candlelight, Sundays at Central in Baltimore, and Sundays at Three in Columbia, as well as appearances as collaborator in the chamber music master classes of Bernard Greenhouse, Zara Nelsova, Ani Kavafian, and Martin Katz.  Rehwoldt and HCC colleague Dr. Kristina Suter are members of the piano duo Accordare, known for their “snappy precision” and “spirited performance style” (The Baltimore Sun).  Accordare has appeared in concert on the West Coast and in the Baltimore-Washington area, including the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore and the premier of a new two piano work by Kevin Olson commissioned to commemorate the opening of HCC’s new Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Building.