NASA 2024 NASA Conference— Featured Artists & Ensembles

Thanks to all who joined us Thursday-Sunday, March 14-17, 2024 for the NASA 2024 NASA Conference at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Casey Dierlam

Casey Gene Dierlam is an avid performer of contemporary music and is devoted to working with and promoting the music of innovative new composers, both through solo performances and collaborative endeavors. While working on her degrees in piano performance at the University of Illinois she won several prizes in international competitions. These include first prize at the Rose Petroff College Piano Competition held in San Antonio, TX, finalist at the St. Louis Artist Presentation Society Competition, alternate for the New Orleans International Piano Competition and Honorable Mention in the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition in New York City.

Along with cultivating her solo career, Casey is also active as a collaborative pianist. She has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame and currently serves as a piano instructor and accompanist at Knox College. She is the coordinating pianist for North American Saxophone Alliance conferences and the International Saxophone Symposium and Competition, performs at regional and national MTNA competitions each year, and has performed with renowned saxophonists, trombonists and tuba players all over the country.

Casey is completing a DMA in Piano at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with Timothy Ehlen. She has also coached with Krassimira Jordan and Paul Barnes at the Bosendorfer Piano Academy in Vienna, Austria, and has supplemented her studies by working with pianist and pedagogue, Zitta Zohar, in New York City.