Lark Powers is a pianist and a native of California. With Ricardo de la Torre, her partner in music and in life, she forms Duo Powers-de la Torre, which has appeared on North American and European stages including the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, the Bibliothèque de Dinan in France and the Instituto Cervantes in Vienna. The duo was a finalist at the United States International Duo Piano Competition in Colorado Springs and won a Silver Award at the first international competition of the Carles & Sofía Foundation of Spain.
She is in demand as a performer and teacher and is frequently invited to sit on competition juries in the American Pacific Northwest. Together with Ricardo de la Torre, she teaches at Pacific Lutheran University and in the Community Music Program at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. The two met during their doctoral studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. On Blue Samba, an album devoted to the music of Miguel del Aguila, she also performs the solo piece Conga.