Lora Kolean · Piano

Lora Clark Kolean completed her Master’s degree at Western Michigan University where she studied with Lori Sims. While at Western, she was a Graduate Assistant in class piano and Lori Sims’ Teaching Assistant. Previously Lora studied with Joan Conway at Hope College and with Fabio Bidini at Accademia Musicale Umbra in Perugia, Italy. Lora teaches Class Piano and Applied Piano, serves as Staff Accompanist at Hope College, and maintains a private studio in her home. She has been a finalist in Kalamazoo’s Bach Competition and twice won the Hope College Concerto Competition. She also received the Kate Garrod Post Education Fund Scholarship through the Women’s Literary Club of Holland and achieved Summa cum Laude at Hope College. Lora has worked with various well-known artists in master classes and summer festivals and has performed solo and chamber works recently with the Hope College Symphonette at the Herrick District Library Concert Series and in the Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck.