Piano Teacher and Performer
Grace Casey is an accomplished piano teacher and performer whose career in music education began in 2006. She currently serves as Music Director of Grace Music School, a community music school in Carolina Park, where she teaches students of all ages and levels. Prior to relocating to Mount Pleasant in 2021, Grace founded and served as Music Director of Grace Music School on Long Island, New York, where she helped build and lead a thriving community music school serving more than 800 students and 30 teachers over more than a decade.
Grace’s teaching experience spans private instruction, community music education, and collegiate teaching. She previously served on the faculty at Ashley Hall in downtown Charleston, where she taught piano and accompanied students. In New York, she served as an Adjunct Professor at New York University and as a Teaching Artist at the Manhattan School of Music.
Her students consistently demonstrate a high level of musical achievement, earning top marks in programs such as Achievement Day, District Auditions, the Sonatina Festival, and NYSSMA and receiving awards and recognition in competitions including the PTA Reflections Composition Contest and the South Carolina Music Teachers Association Composition Competition. Her students have performed at prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Tilles Center, and Steinway Hall. Graduates of her studio have gone on to study music and pursue higher education at institutions including the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Rice University, Ithaca College, Vassar College, the University of Texas at Austin, and Skidmore College. Others have gone on to professional careers in music, performing on Broadway, in churches, and at other professional venues.
Grace holds a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from New York University, where she studied with distinguished concert pianist Eduardus Halim, a former student of Vladimir Horowitz. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with acclaimed pianist and pedagogue Philip Kawin.
As a performer, Grace has appeared at numerous respected venues throughout Charleston, New York City, Long Island, Burgos (SPAIN), and Castelnuovo di Gargagnago (ITALY) including Merkin Hall, Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, the Staller Center, The Cell, and the Bowery Poetry Club.
Grace remains actively involved in the music education community. She is a member of the Charleston Music Teachers Association, South Carolina Music Teachers Association, Music Teachers National Association, and New York State School Music Association. She currently serves as Treasurer of the Charleston Music Teachers Association and is a Steinway Educational Partner.
Above all of her professional accomplishments, Grace is most proud of her role as a mother to her four boys, who continually inspire her love of music, learning, and family.
