Edward Rath

Associate Director and Assistant Professor of Music; Webmaster

B.M. with Distinction in Performance (piano), Lawrence University; M.M. with High Distinction (piano performance) and D.M. with High Distinction (piano performance), Indiana University-Bloomington.  Student of György Sebök; chamber music coaching with Josef Gingold, Janos Starker, and William Primrose; vocal accompanying studies with Margaret Harshaw.

Edward Rath has served on the faculties of the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and Northwestern State University of Louisiana, and was also on the opera coaching staff at the University of Iowa School of Music. In addition to his wide-ranging administrative duties, he has taught the graduate piano literature class and private piano at the University of Illinois. A Steinway Artist, Professor Rath’s performance career includes solo recitals and guest appearances with orchestras, and he has been a chamber music partner with Laszlo Varga and Leonard Rose, and numerous University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty colleagues. For 23 years, Professor Rath was administrative director of the Classical Music Festival, a program formerly sponsored by the University of Illinois School of Music, in Eisenstadt/Vienna, Austria. Professor Rath is president of Zeta Chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda Honor Society in Music and co-chair of the Music Panel of the Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI). He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Liszt Society and both Editor of the Society's Newsletter and Webmaster of its
website.
Dr. Rath's office is room 3062 Music Building, 1114 W. Nevada Street, Urbana, and he may be reached by e-mail or by phoning 217/244-2670.