Lark Powers

 In demand as a solo and collaborative artist as well as an adjudicator and presenter, Dr. Powers has performed across the US, and in Europe, Canada, and Latin America. In addition to collaborations with ensembles, including the Tacoma Symphony, Olympia Symphony Orchestra, Fort Collins Symphony, the Washington-Idaho Symphony, Tacoma Opera, and the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, and as soloist with the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra. She is a frequent performer on local series around the Puget Sound, and has presented at the Western Early Keyboard Association Conference in 2025, the Society for American Music's National conference in 2025, the NCKP 2023 Piano Conference, and performed at MTNA's Group Piano/Piano Pedagogy Forum in 2022 and multiple times for the Encuentro Pianistas Costa Rica festival, as well as WSMTA state conferences. She is Associate Professor at Pacific Lutheran University where she teaches applied lessons, collaborative piano, and coordinates the group keyboard program. She specializes in the music of Latin American composers, with frequent commissions and premiers, and can be heard on recordings with the Pan Pacific Ensemble on Albany records and Duo Powers-de la Torre on Odradek (upcoming). Dr. Powers received degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder, the Peabody Institute, the University of the Pacific and the Conservatoire municipal Hector Berlioz in Paris 

 Paris studying with Andrew Cooperstock, Seth Knopp, Frank Wiens, and Adam Wibrowski, respectively.