Dr. Lina Morita

Japanese-Brazilian pianist LINA MORITA made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2013.  Her international career has taken her throughout the U.S., Brazil, Mexico, Spain, France, and the Czech Republic. Most recently, she has been invited to present concerts at Sala Blas Galindo at Centro Nacional de Artes, Mexico City; Capilla de la Biblioteca Miguel Lerdo de Tejada, Mexico City; Auditorio Alfredo Kraus in Gran Canaria, Spain; Casa Sors in Barcelona, Spain; Salão Leopoldo Miguez in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and in Mexico City (UNAM, Museo Mural Diego Rivera and at La Escuela de Musica “Vida y Movimiento” del Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli).  Other venues in which she has performed include II Festival Eleazar de Carvalho, IX Festival de Música de Santa Catarina in Brazil, the Bertramka Museum in Prague, the Music Center at Strathmore in Maryland, Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington DC, the Connoisseur Series at the University of Southern Mississippi.  In August and September of 2024, she will be performing solo recitals as an invited guest pianist for the Ponce Project Foundation in Mexico City and Houston, TX. 

As a performer and pedagogue, Lina Morita has performed recitals and taught master classes at colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad and has collaborated with renowned musicians such as flutists Ransom Wilson, Susan Milan, Ian Clarke, Jim Walker, clarinetists Mark Nuccio, Robert Spring and cellist Dennis Parker.  As a concerto soloist, Morita performed Mozart’s “Jeunehomme” Concerto and the Chopin’s F Minor Concerto with the Ars Nova Chamber Orchestra in Washington D.C. and Virginia.  Other soloist appearances include Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 with the Lake Charles Symphony in Louisiana and the Washington Sinfonietta in Washington DC.  She has released CDs with soprano Carol Lines on Centaur Records and with cellist Dennis Parker on Nucello Recordings.  The latest CD, Landscapes, with guitarist Jay Kacherski released by Frameworks Records in the Fall of 2022 has been deemed “an impressive album both in music and performances” by Soundboard Magazine, and that “Kacherski and Morita are both virtuosi and play exceptionally well together”.

Lina Morita received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music; the Master of Music degree from Rice University; and the Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University.  Her primary studies have been with Nelita True, Robert Roux, Edmund Battersby, and Michel Block. Morita is currently a Professor of Piano at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana.