Faculty
Dorothy Schechter
Piano, History
Dorothy Elliot Schechter is currently professor of music at California Lutheran University where she teaches piano and music history in both the undergraduate and graduate divisions.
Upon earning her baccalaureate and masters degrees from the University of Southern California, Dorothy Schechter matriculated, as a Fulbright Scholar, at the University of Oslo to research the music of Edvard Grieg and to study piano with Robert Riefling. She earned her D.M.A. from the University of Southern California and has studied with and taken private instruction from John Crown, Lillian Steuber, Alice Ehlers, Gwendolyn Koldofsky, Purvis Smith, Daniel Pollock, and Mme. Rosina Lhevinne.
Dr. Schechter has performed extensively in both Norway and in the West, having given her first piano recital at the age of seven at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. She has appeared on CBS TV with one of her mentors, the late John Crown, and she was the author as well as performer of the "Nationalism in Music" segment of the PBS TV series "From Chant to Chance." In addition to solo recitals on Norwegian State Radio, she "starred" in the film "the Norway of Edvard Grieg", produced by the late Max Krone and Ray Garner, ISOMATA Films.
Her recitals have included performances in such places as Contempo (Westwood), Palm Springs Desert Museum, Cypress College, University of California, Riverside, faculty recitals at California State University, Long Beach and California Lutheran University, benefit concert with Henri Temianka, and soloist for Mme. Rosina Lhevinne's master classes at the University of Southern California. Ventura County Symphony, the Conejo Valley Symphony Orchestras and West Valley Symphony.
She was featured pianist for the Edvard Grieg Festival held at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego for two years.