Karlyn Bond is professor of piano at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bond was one of two national winners of the Jacob Javits Fellowship for study in the performing arts when she graduated from Walla Walla College in 1989. She subsequently completed a M.Mus. Perf. and D.M.A. degrees at the University of Southern California. She frequently performs as a soloist and with her sister, Kori, also a pianist, who serves as a member of the music faculty at Idaho State University.

Bond caught the attention of Salt Lake City audiences when she gave her first piano recital at age eleven and performed Mendelssohn's G minor piano concerto with the Utah Symphony at age twelve. Since then her performing career has included performances with several symphony orchestras and numerous solo and chamber recitals. She performs regularly in a flute-piano duo known as Sterling and Ivory. In 1996, she appeared twice with the Utah Chamber artists and released her first CD, "Piano Classics from the World of Jane Austen."

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