Casey Jo Ahn Robards is much sought after as an accompanist, vocal coach and chamber music partner.  In 2008-2009, Casey was on the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University as Visiting Assistant Professor in Voice/Collaborative Piano and Ms. Robards joined the Indiana Opera Theatre as a pianist/vocal coach for 2009-2010. She is a faculty pianist and vocal coach at the Bay View Music Festival. 

Ms. Robards has accompanied numerous singers and instrumentalists throughout the country and has been on staff with Young Musicians Inc. (Evanston, WY); the Weathersfield Music Festival, (Castleton, VT); the Plymouth Music Festival, (Plymouth, MA); the StudiO Vocal Arts Institute, (Monticello, IL) the Illinois Opera Theatre (Urbana, Illinois), and Y.O.P.E. (Youth Opera Performance Education).  Her performances have been broadcast on Interlochen Public Radio and WILL-TV, (a PBS affiliate) and Ms. Robards recorded an album of Negro spirituals with soprano, Ollie Watts Davis.  She was principal musician and assistant conductor of the University of Illinois Black Chorus between 1998-2008. 

As a Tanglewood Fellow in 2004 and 2005, Casey was rehearsal pianist for projects conducted by James Levine, Robert Spano, and Kurt Masur. She has accompanied for masterclasses with artists including William Bolcom and Joan Morris, Phyllis Curtin, James Levine, Malcom Martineau, Sherrill Milnes, George Shirley, Dawn Upshaw, and Roger Vignoles. 

Ms. Robards' awards include the Henri Kohn Memorial Award from the Tanglewood Music Center (2004), the Nancy J. Kennedy Wustman Memorial Accompanying Award (2004), the Fern and John Armstrong Award (1996), and the National Society of Arts and Letters Regional Winner (2002).  Her teachers include Kenneth Drake, Joel Shapiro, William Heiles, Gustavo Romero, Richard Syracuse, Dennis Helmrich, Eric Dalheim, John Wustman, and Nathan and Julie Gunn. Ms. Robards completed the B.M. (Piano Performance) and M.M. (Piano Pedagogy) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is currently completing a D.M.A. in Vocal Coaching and Accompanying.