Joy Cline Phinney

Pianist Joy Cline Phinney, a native of Boulder, Colorado, has appeared in solo and chamber music recitals across the United States and in Europe.  She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in piano from The Juilliard School, where she studied with William Masselos, Adele Marcus, and Samuel Sanders, and a Doctor of Ensemble Arts from the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Ellen Mack and Robert McDonald. 

Joy has collaborated in chamber music concerts, recording projects, and radio and television programs with members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, among others, and for two decades has appeared annually with headlined artists on the Faculty Showcase concerts at the Sarasota (Florida) Music Festival.  Some of the distinguished artists with whom she has performed are James Buswell, Lynn Chang, Timothy Cobb, Anyango Yarbo- Davenport,, Timothy Eddy, Anthony Elliot, Miguel Pérez-Espejo, Emmanuel Feldman, Karen Gomyo, Vanessa Holroyd, David Houston, Juliette Kang, Alexander Kerr, Nancy King, Julie Landsman, Ron Leonard, Lucia Lin, Phillippe Muller, Peter Stumpf, Richard Svoboda, Hsin-Lin Tsai, Ann Hobson Pilot, Alan Vogel, Carol Wincenc, William Winstead, Owen Young, and Rebecca Young.  

Notable concerts of the past two years include return engagement on the New York Philharmonic Merkin Hall Concert Series (Brahms Piano Quintet), “Colour of Music” festival concerts in Houston, TX  and Richmond, VA, collaborative concerts at Stanford, Harvard, Seattle, Brandeis, and Tufts Universities, Sevenars Music Festival (MA),  Resident Artist and concerts with “Castle of Our Skins,” continuing engagements with musiConnects, and Boston University’s quartet-in-residence - Arneis Quartet.

Faculty appointments include the Cremona International Academy in Italy, Sarasota  International Music Festival in Florida, and Easton Chamber Music Festival  in Massachusetts. 

Recording credits (available on amazon.com) "Our American Roots: Music for Cello and Piano" (Delos) with cellist Emmanuel Feldman, following up their successful collaboration "Rider on the Plains" (Albany Records), which was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Producer, Blanton Alspaugh.