Katie Mahan

American pianist Katie Mahan is notable in that she lives in Salzburg, Austria, and has spent much of her career in the German-speaking world. She plays a wide range of repertory, specializing in the music of Gershwin and Debussy. Mahan was born in Golden, Colorado, in Denver's Front Range suburbs, in the early 1980s. Her father, Harv, was a solar physicist, her mother, Bobette, a piano teacher who gave young Katie her first lessons. Urged to take up the piano, she resisted but gave in at age four after hearing a concert by Katia & Marielle Labèque. Mahan gave her first recit...