Accompanist
Valerie J. Becker is an active soloist and collaborative pianist in the Boston area. She received her Bachelor and Master’s degrees from Boston University where she was a student of Anthony di Bonaventura. Ms. Becker has been soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra, rehearsal pianist for the Boston Symphony where she worked as collaborative pianist with many Boston Symphony Orchestra musicians, served on the faculty of North Carolina School of the Arts, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and was one of the rehearsal pianists for the Boston Symphony Orchestra for many years. She is currently on the Performing Arts Faculty at the Winsor School in Boston, a faculty accompanist at The Rivers School Conservatory, Music Director for the Congregational Church of Needham, pianist for the Kodaly Institute of Boston’s summer program and on staff as an accompanist at New England Conservatory.
