While working with Cate, students have earned Broadway roles, National musical theater and Kennedy Center tours, signed contracts with Cirque de Soleil and Disney Tokyo, Helen Hayes award nominations and Cinderella awards, sung in equity productions at Signature Theater, Arena Stage, Studio Theater, The Washington National Opera and WNO Children’s Chorus, Ford’s Theater, Olney Theater, Theater Alliance, Imagination Stage, night clubs and jazz venues, all DC area auditioned choral groups and are paid singers in houses of worship.

Her private studio is made up of everyone from beginning singers of all ages to professional singers, singers with advanced degrees in voice, music education and theater. She is equipped to help high school seniors and their parents prepare for college auditions in the vocal performing arts, and helps to balance the requirements of high school vocal programs and college auditions with a systematic development of the voice that is age-appropriate for each individual singer.

Cate’s varied other music experiences include:

• Please see complete performance resume
• Adjunct voice professor at the college level
• Accompanist for singers, theater productions and services of worship
• Music Director for Children’s Musical Theater: Narnia, Twelve Dancing Princesses, Annie and Oliver
• Founder, The Washington Vocal Consortium, www.washvocal.com, the nation’s first and premier team voice-teaching organization.
• Founder and Choral Conductor for Ceres, A Women’s Chorus and The Levine School of Music’s Women’s Chorus,
• Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the stellar combination music education and community service programs for the former Singer’s Centre for Girls.
• Composer and Arranger: published by Arsis Press, Washington, DC
• President, MD/DC Chapter of National Association of Teachers of Singing.

Master of Music in Vocal Pedagogy and Performance, The University of Maryland, College Park, MD Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance, with a minor in Keyboard Accompanying, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio Certification, Somatic Voicework: The Lovetri Method, The Institute for Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy at Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia Post-Graduate Study and Continual Learning in all facets of vocal pedagogy and singing, including Acting for Singers, Alexander Technique, Body Mapping, Yoga and Movement, Choral Music Pedagogy, Sound Therapy, Voice Science and Somatics

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