Katrin Arefy

Katrin Arefy is the artistic director and head teacher at the Golden Key Piano School in Berkeley, California. She received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the Gnessin School of Music in Moscow. Katrin also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in Painting from Azad University in Tehran.
Katrin is the author of A Thousand Stories for a Little Pianistand the series My First Piano Book and has translated Anna Artobolevskaya’s First Meet with the Music and Heinrich Neuhaus’ The Art of Piano Playing from Russian to Farsi. She has lectured on the Russian method and specifically Artobolevskya’s method at various universities in the US and overseas including University of Oregon and Ohio University School of Music, and recently at the Music Teachers Association Of California Conference in San Diego.
Her very first students are now professional pianists graduating from some of the finest music universities in Austria and Armenia.