Madeline Rogers

Originally from Eldorado, IL, Madeline Rogers is an accomplished solo and collaborative performer in the US and abroad. Significant international performances include the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, and a recurring scholarship at Brahmshaus Baden-Baden, where she researched and performed in 2022 and 2024. In October 2024, Rogers toured Vietnam with faculty from the University of Nebraska as part of their Global Arts Academy, teaching masterclasses and performing at renowned music schools in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam. The following month, Rogers travelled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to perform as a solo artist and in collaboration with Seminario Internacional Teológico Bautista and Conservatorio Superior de Música Ástor Piazzolla.  Rogers performs regularly in Kentucky with her piano trio, Trio Risoluto, alongside violinist Sila Darville and cellist Luke Darville. Rogers is also pianist and Co-Artistic Director of Amadeus Lex, a nonprofit chamber music ensemble dedicated to bringing classical music to the Bluegrass region. 

A proponent of American composers, Rogers has worked closely with Victoria Bond to revive her “Black Light” piano concerto that was last performed in 1997 and was the first to premiere the two-piano version of the concerto in 2021 alongside Florencia Zuloaga. Her current research is on H. Leslie Adams, whom she interviewed extensively to publish a revised edition of his Empire Sonata for Horn and Piano through the American Composers Alliance in 2024. She was the first to perform the edited work for the composer and for the College Music Society National Conference in Miami in October of 2023.

Rogers is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Piano through the Music Teachers National Association and has taught in both private studio and class piano settings since 2010. In 2024, Rogers received an Open Educational Resource Grant to create and publish a textbook with all original compositions, which she currently uses to teach Class Piano at Berea College. Rogers earned a Master of Music from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as a student of André Watts and a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the University of Nebraska Lincoln with Paul Barnes. Rogers previously taught applied and collaborative piano as an Artist-Faculty member at the Omaha Conservatory of Music and is currently Assistant Professor of Keyboard Studies at Berea College.