Katie is a seasoned voice and piano teacher, with experience in multiple genres and with all age levels. She teaches singers to use the most organic, tension free technique possible to discover their authentic voice, musicality, and self-expression. Her students have excelled in auditions, solo performances, intensive vocal study programs and competitions. A versatile singer herself, she has been delighting audiences for over two decades. She has performed as soloist in Handel’s Messiah, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Poulenc’s Stabat Mater, Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen and Mozart’s Requiem. She has sung with Masterworks Chorale, the Paul Madore Chorale, Boston Cecilia, Zensemble and The Down East Singers in Thomaston, Maine. Katie is a frequent soloist at Saint Columbkille Parish in Brighton, MA and at St. Ignatius of Loyola Church in Chestnut Hill, where she has been a member of the music ministry since 1999. Katie’s musical studies began with the piano at the age of 5, and she discovered her passion for singing in her early adolescent years. Katie holds a BM in Vocal Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, and will complete her MM in Vocal Performance at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA in 2023. Always developing professionally, she attended the Boston Conservatory Vocal Pedagogy Professional Workshop in 2018, The Orff Schulwerk Level 1 training at Bridgewater State University in 2019 and the OperaWorks Winter Intensive Program in Los Angeles, CA in 2016.
