Sisters Rachelle and Robin McCabe will perform a magnificent program of two-piano music by Brahms, Ravel and Prokofiev.

Robin McCabe has established herself as one of America’s most communicative and persuasive artists, delighting audiences across the United States, Europe, Canada and in nine concert tours of the Far East.  Winner of the International Concert Artists Guild Competition and recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation grant, Robin McCabe was the subject of a New Yorker magazine profile, “Pianist’s Progress,” later expanded into a book of the same title. A member of the  Juilliard faculty from 1978 to 1987, she joined the piano faculty at the University of Washington in 1987 and was director of the School of Music from 1994 to 2009. McCabe holds a Michiko Morita Miyamoto Professorship in Piano at the UW.

Rachelle McCabe, Professor Emeritus of Music at Oregon State University, is the Artistic Director of Corvallis-OSU Piano International.  She enjoys an international career and has performed recitals throughout North America and United Kingdom, Europe, China, and Southeast Asia. As concerto soloist she has performed with the Seattle Symphony, as well as the Pittsburgh, Oregon, Victoria, and Corvallis-OSU Symphonies. Rachelle earned her master’s at the Juilliard School and her doctorate at The University of Michigan. A highly respected teacher, she was a professor at OSU from 1985 to 2021. She continues to teach independently in Corvallis and appears often in national and international festivals and master classes.

Robin and Rachelle McCabe first discovered they enjoyed performing together at the Victoria International Music Festival where they were artist faculty members for six weeks each summer for over twenty years. In October 2023, the McCabe sisters will travel to China to perform duo piano recitals and teach at five music conservatories in the cities of Beijing and Xi’an.

[Robin McCabe] “Playing of a special level – an ability to reach and touch the listener.” The New York Times

[Rachelle McCabe]  “Her technique and interpretation in Mendelssohn’s G Minor Concerto were brilliant.” The Seattle Times