During the span of her  artistic activity, the pianist Karen Zereconsky has been described as "a true artist having great emotional depth ... brilliant interpretation" and "one who plays with a natural, logical intelligence.  She is a  pianist who has been described "an exceptional artist with the most refined style" who "performs with rare intensity".   Often heralded as having a great capacity and gift for transferring emotion to the public, it has been said of her that "she communicates heart to heart" with her audiences. Her interpretations have been described as being "captivating... virtuostic... passionate ... profound...unforgettable".  
 

Karen began her formal musical training  at The French Conservatory of Music in the United States at the age of five and

by the age of nine years old, made her debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York.

In 1972 Zereconsky moved to Canada, where she studied with the  pianist, Jean Paul Sevilla, and later with the distinguished Canadian pianist and pedagogue, Cynthia Millman Floyd at the University of Ottawa. In 1980 Karen was invited to perform for  Representatives of the Canadian National Government and foreign diplomats. Her performance was so much appreciated by the attending guests, ambassadors, dignitaries, and various government officials, that she was invited to perform and give concert tours throughout Europe and Asia, where many were televised and broadcasted live.

In 1982,  Zereconsky moved to Rome, Italy, where she studied with the Italian pianist and conductor Carlo Zecchi, a student of Busoni and Schnabel.  In 1983 Karen decided to expand her academic studies and attended The Juilliard School in New York, where she completed and received her Bachelor and Master of Musical Arts degrees in three years with full scholarship, while still continuing to perform in Europe. While at The Juilliard, she studied with Adele Marcus (a student of Stravinsky, Josef Lhevinne, and Artur Schnabel) and also with the pianist  Jacob Lateiner (a student of Arnold Schoenberg).

Wanting to gather more knowledge, she furthered her studies in Russia at the Moscow Conservatory, where she studied Music History and Musicology under Director Dr. Ovchinnikov, Pedagogy with Ludmilla and Chamber Music with Tigran Alikonov.
 

After being awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, Karen completed and received her Doctoral of Musical Arts Degree, studying under the American-Russian pianist, Eugene Istomin, a student of Siloti and Rudolf Serkin, receiving a Teaching Fellowship.

Continuing to perform and give Master classes and lectures in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia, Zereconsky was also on the Piano Faculty of Westminster Choir College at Princeton University, for 12 years, and on  the faculty of the French Conservatory, where many of her students won National and International Piano Competitions annually.  While in Taiwan she gave master classes and lectures at The National Chao Tung University, the University of SinChu, National Kaohsiung University and National Tainan Teachers College on analysis and interpretation.
 

Dr. Zereconsky was on the Board of Directors of the Piano Teachers Association, Music Teachers Association and on the jury of numerous national and international piano competitions and festivals yearly, both in the United States and Europe.

Karen Zereconsky's concert activity, as a soloist and with orchestras, has brought her throughout the world where her performances were broadcasted on television and radio, including the Vatican. She was invited to perform for the United Nations as the special guest of Secretary General Perez De Quellar.  After having been invited to the De Vries Foundation in Belgium to perform , her playing was said "to be placed under the sign of intelligence...a strong Mozart, such as I have not heard in a long time ... she follows heart and emotions."

Since 2010 Dr. Karen Zereconsky has been the Founder and Director of the LUMEN International Academy for Music and Research, formerly based in Rome. The educational part of the Academy includes advanced courses in analysis and interpretation, masterclasses, lectures on various interdisciplinary topics, concerts, and brain and music research. Her goal now is to share valuable insights that she has obtained over her life and to continue brain and music research.  The courses offered online are meant to help uplift the individual artist, giving them the possibility to more effectively communicate with the audience and for intellectually curious non musicians.