Karen Quinton is a Toronto-based Canadian pianist, organist, harpsichordist and music educator.
Ms. Quinton was the head of the Keyboard Department at The Royal Conservatory of Music from 2000 to 2006 and is the organist at Centennial Japanese United Church in Toronto.
[1] Quinton studied privately with Andreas Barban[2] and earned the Trinity College Performers' Associate Diploma before entering the McGill University Faculty of Music, where she obtained a Bachelor of Music in piano performance and a post-graduate Concert Diploma.
After winning the Prix d'Europe in 1972, Karen Quinton pursued graduate piano studies with Tatiana Nikolayeva at the Moscow Conservatory from 1973 to 1975, and in London England with Katharina Wolpe, 1979- 81.
She was one of the founding faculty members of the School of Music at Memorial University.