Dr. Lillian Buss Pearson has appeared throughout the continental United States as a solist and chamber player. Dr. Pearson is currently head of the keyboard area at Western Carolina University, where she teaches piano, harpsichord, accompanying, and piano pedagogy. During the past five summers she has performed as a soloist and chamber musician with the Breckenridge Music Institute in Breckenridge, Colorado. Additionally, she has performed with the Brandenburg Ensemble of Jacksonville, the National Chamber Players, the Asheville Symphony and has appeared as a soloist with the Jacksonville Symphony in Jacksonville, Florida.

Pearson has served as an accompanist for the International Horn Workshop, the International Double-Reed Society, the International Trumpet Guild, the Southeastern Horn Workshop, the Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Artist Competition, the Southeastern Composers League Forum, and the Bodky Competition.

Pearson holds the Doctor of Music degree in piano performance from Florida State University, where she studed with Edward Kilenyi. Her interest in the authentic performance of early music has led her to study both the fortepiano and the harpsichord, on which she has had masterclasses with Malcolm Bilson, Gustave Leonhardt, Kenneth Gilbert, and Igor Kipnis.