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 Pianist Rodney Waters serves as the Assistant Artistic Director of Divas World Productions. In addition he is the Artistic Director of the Mukuru "Arts for AIDS" Series, a program of AIDS Foundation Houston. Named after an African god of compassion, the series raises funds for HIV prevention programs in the Houston area. He performs regularly on the Mukuru Series as well as with the Houston Symphony, and on chamber music concerts presented by Da Camera, Musiqa, St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society, and the Foundation for Modern Music. He has performed as soloist and chamber musician in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Orchestra Hall in Detroit, Asahi Recital Hall in Tokyo, and the Church of St. Simon in Prague and has also toured extensively in Japan. From 1992-2001 he served as a staff pianist at the Shepherd School of Music of Rice University.
In 2003 Naxos released his recording with Curt Thompson of the complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Charles Ives on their American Classics series. The recording received outstanding reviews from Gramophone Magazine and Strad Magazine, and in March, 2004 The New York Times included this CD on a list of outstanding Ives recordings.
A long-time advocate for the use of art in service of social causes, his work with refugees resettled by Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston resulted in the CD Seeking Refuge, which combines music, poetry, and photography to raise both money and awareness for refugees in the United States. Also an award-winning photographer, his exhibit of HIV-positive individuals was unveiled during FotoFest 2006, an international photography festival held biannually in Houston.
A native of Lubbock, Texas, Rodney earned his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Mannes College of Music in New York, where he studied chamber music with Felix Galimir and piano with Leon Pommers and Richard Goode.
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