Catherine Bringerud completed Bachelor and Master degrees in piano performance at Indiana University earning a Performer’s Certificate upon completion of her degree work at Indiana. Her teachers included Sidney Foster, Hans Boepple, and Zadel Skolovsky. Later she studied with Mary Sauer at Depaul University in Chicago. She joined the Butler University faculty in 1982 where she established herself as a collaborative pianist in high demand. She is equally at home with singers and instrumentalists. Before retiring from Butler in 2022, she performed an average of 50 different recital programs a year. She has also recorded with Butler faculty and area musicians