Rodney Waters, Pianist

Rodney Waters is a Jungian Analyst Diploma Candidate at the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland, seeing clients in Houston through The Center for the Healing Arts and Sciences. As a pianist he has performed internationally and in Houston with the Houston Symphony, ROCO, Da Camera, Musiqa, and St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society. In April 2016, his recording with Curt Thompson of the complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano by American composer Charles Ives was named one of the top 10 recordings of Ives’ music by Gramophone Magazine. Since 2009 he has given seminars and lectures at the Jung Center of Houston on topics including music, mythology, film and literature. A long-time advocate for the use of music and art in the service of social causes, he created projects to support language tutoring and refugee resettlement through Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston, and HIV prevention programs through AIDS Foundation Houston. From 2011-2019 he was the Scholarship Director of Music Doing Good and facilitated grants of approximately $400,000 to hundreds of young music students in Houston. He also performs and records original music in the band Spirit & the Trickster with singer/songwriter/psychotherapist John Price.