Christine Dolinich-Matuska

Since 1982, Christine Dolinich-Matuska has been the director of Union County Conservatory, a piano and visual art studio in Rahway, New Jersey. She is a graduate of Douglass College, Rutgers University and has also studied at Westminster Choir College and at Oxford University in England

Ms. Dolinich-Matuska is both a pianist and a visual artist, combining of these two disciplines has lead to the strong direction of her work. She has served on ten professional review panels for the Union County Arts Grants Committee of the Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs. She has given numerous lectures and radio programs on women in art and music. A former recipient of a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Mixed Media, she has also been awarded two H.E.A.R.T. Grants (History, Education and the Arts Reaching Thousands) from the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders and has been listed in Who's Who of American Women. The recipient of eleven Genia Robinor Piano Pedagogy Awards of Excellence from the Piano Teachers Society of America, she has also received the Allison R. and Maria E. Drake Pedagogy Award for Excellence in Ensemble Teaching and her National Pedagogy Certification Award.

She is the chairperson of the P.T.S.A. Music, Art and Poetry Competition. Recently, she was selected in a national competition to create a Millennium Time Capsule for the Montpelier Cultural Arts Center in Maryland. The time capsule will focus on contributions by women in art and music over the last 1,000 years and the relationship of music and art and how, over this millennium, they have come to overlap and combine. Her time capsule will be exhibited in Maryland in January and February of 2000, and then will be sealed and stored to be opened in the year 3000.

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