A Wisconsin native, Johanna Schilling graduated with a bachelor’s degree in piano performance from Houghton College in western New York in 2010. She received her Master of Music degree in piano performance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2012, where she studied with Judit Jaimes and Elena Abend. Since graduation, Johanna has worked as a company accompanist for the Milwaukee Ballet, piano faculty at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and currently as an Associate Lecturer in Piano at UWM. She is also the accompanist for the Lakeshore Chorale in Sheboygan and teaches piano privately and at St. Robert School in Shorewood. When not teaching, practicing, rehearsing, or performing music, she enjoys the outdoors, preferably on her motorcycle.