About

Recognized for her creative programming and “exquisitely played” concerts (The Brook Center of New York), Ariadne Antipa is a pianist, conductor, and educator residing in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has toured the United States and several countries throughout Europe and Africa as a performer and pedagogue. She received first place in many competitions including the Ann Krusche Piano Competition, the Rochester International School of Music & Arts Competition, and the King’s Peak International Music Competition, and was a semi-finalist for the 2020 Astral Artist award. She has appeared as concerto soloist with the Central Valley Youth Symphony, Sacramento State Symphony, and most recently with the University of South Florida Wind Ensemble, performing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. She has been featured in live-radio broadcasts, including on Tampa’s WSMR and Cincinnati’s WGUC classical stations, and is regularly invited back to play on concert series across the country. She has performed as a soloist and collaborator in venues across the globe, including the Centro Municipal Integrado Pumarín (Spain), the Faye Spanos Concert Hall (United States), and the Château de Fontainebleau (France). This fall, Ariadne will perform the piano music of Auerbach, Bacewicz, Brahms, and Chopin throughout Ohio and Indiana.

Ariadne is committed to collaborating with living composers and performing works of both celebrated and unfamiliar composers. Her projects include the Midwest premiere and recording of "Six Preludes After Chopin" by CCM’s Professor Miguel Roig-Francoli and participation in composer Tyler Kline’s commissioning consortium for Orchard, an album of 50 short solo piano pieces inspired by fruit, available on Neuma Records. She is a member of Cincinnati New Music and has premiered works by contemporary composers Jay Mobley and Jacob Ottmer. Ariadne chooses each concert program with care, providing audiences a varied selection of music representing diverse backgrounds, time-periods, and familiarity. She is particularly devoted to sharing the music of 20th century Armenian composer Arno Babadjanian, an immensely creative composer whose music is seldom heard in the United States.

Ariadne is director and curator of Flight88, a unique concert series hosted by the Cincinnati brewery Urban Artifact. Aiming to appeal to both newcomers and seasoned classical music lovers alike, Flight88 offers bi-weekly concerts where audiences are invited to enjoy the award-winning fruit tarts sold in the taproom downstairs while listening to exceptional live music in the upstairs event space.

In 2021, Ariadne commissioned Dr. Brian Raphael Nabors to compose a choral work focused on race in America, using poetry and participants’ personal stories to convey a message relevant in today’s world. The finished product is a virtual choir piece in four movements, with over 30 singers from around the world.

Ariadne holds a BM in Piano Performance from the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Ms. Rebecca Penneys, an MM in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Michigan where she studied with Dr. Logan Skelton, and DMA in Piano Performance with a minor in Choral Conducting from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music where she studied with Dr. Ran Dank. Her former teachers and mentors include Dr. Michelle Conda, Dr. Brett Scott, Dr. Lorna Peters, Mr. Richard Cionco, and Dr. Natsuki Fukasawa.

As a teacher, Ariadne has enjoyed a variety of teaching positions at the private pre-college, and collegiate levels. For years, she maintained a vibrant private studio of in-person and online students from across the country. Her students have scored in the highest percentile for RCM exams and have been accepted into college music programs with scholarship. At the collegiate level, Ariadne was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Cincinnati and at the University of Michigan, and served as Adjunct Faculty at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio. Currently, Ariadne is the Director of Choirs at Dixie Heights High School in Edgewood, Kentucky. She is also the choir director for the Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Finneytown, Ohio.

Ariadne lives with her husband, pianist and electronic keyboardist William Perry, and their Boston Terrier named Waffle. They are thrilled to be welcoming a foreign exchange student from the Netherlands into their home for the 2024-2025 academic year.