Pianist Shiela Kibbe is currently Director ad interim of the School of Music at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. Throughout two decades as Chairman of the Collaborative Piano Department at Boston University she has maintained an international career as recital partner to instrumentalists and vocalists alike. She has concertized throughout the United States and Europe, as well as in China, Japan, and Russia, performing in New York’s Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Boston’s Jordan Hall and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Germany, and the Philharmonic Small Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia.

For several years, Shiela was rehearsal pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Tanglewood Festival Chorus.  She has served as principal keyboardist and vocal coach for the Symphony and Opera Association in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and as pianist for the Pennsylvania Opera Theatre, the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet Seminars, and the International Suzuki Institute in Ithaca, New York.

Shiela Kibbe may be heard in recordings with Courtney Miller, oboist – Centaur Records (Modern Fairy Tales), Terry Everson, trumpeter – Albany Records (In the Style Of), Stephen Salters, baritone – Qualiton Records (Cyprès label), and the John Oliver Chorale – Koch. She has premiered works by American composers Howard Frazin, Daniel Pinkham, Elena Ruehr, David Sisco, Julian Wachner, and John Wallace, and has been a guest artist for the Eastern Trombone Workshop, Florestan Recital Project, National Trumpet Competition, International Trombone Association, Naumburg Vocal Competition, and WordSong, Inc.