Rita Borden
Principal Lecturer of Piano/Accompanying
928-523-2289
Building 37A, Room 168
Rita.Borden@nau.edu
MM Accompanying, University of Southern California
BM Education, University of Northern Colorado
Rita Borden joined the Northern Arizona University School of
Performing Arts faculty in 1995 where she teaches piano, accompanying and
chamber music.
Ms. Borden is a pianist and coordinator with the NAU
Faculty Chamber Players, and is an active collaborator on faculty recitals and
with guest artists on the NAU Performing Arts Series.
She has extensive experience as a collaborative pianist,
including performances with:
- San Diego Symphony
- Pacific Symphony
- Chamber Music Sedona
- Colorado String
Quartet
- San Diego Master Chorale
- Pacific Chorale
- Flagstaff Symphony
- Flagstaff Festival of
the Arts.
Ms. Borden coordinates the piano
accompanying/chamber music emphasis at NAU and supervises the piano scholarship
accompanying students. She has over twenty years of experience in all areas of
the accompanying field including a staff accompanist position at California
State University-Fullerton (1980-1989) and has accompanied many workshops and
auditions such as the USC Piatigorsky Seminar, National Cello Institute,
Metropolitan Auditions and Richard Miller Seminar. She has been on the faculty
of the NAU Music Camp, Idyllwild Arts and USC-ISOMATA.