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| Music has been Kathleen’s main interest since her childhood in Ridgewood, New Jersey. At age 16 she became an established church soloist at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Passaic, NJ and continued in that profession throughout much of the rest of her lifetime. She studied music at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and studied classical guitar with Rodrigo Riera, a student of Andres Segovia and with Aaron Shearer at Peabody Conservatory. She has performed in opera, oratorio and as a concert artist throughout the East, in Europe and Japan, appearing in such well known halls as Town Hall, Lincoln Center, the United Nations Concert Hall in New York, and the Tchaikowsky Hall in Moscow.
In the late ‘50’s Kathleen became interested in folk music - international and of the United States - and was a popular and busy folk festival producer and performer in that field throughout the ‘60’s. Her women’s acapella singing group was featured in the New Jersey Tercentenary Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in 1964, and earned an award from UNICEF, the recipient of all their profits. She has been a music teacher all of her adult life, teaching guitar and other fretted instruments, voice, keyboard, and school music professionally as well as filling organist and music director positions in many different churches and private organizations. In 1968 Kathleen and her four children moved to Maine where she took a position as manager of a music store in Ellsworth for the next 10 years. She continued her musical adventures in Maine performing classical and folk music in many venues including University of Maine in Orono and Farmington, acting as soloist and flamenco guitarist with the Spanish Dance Theatre, as soloist with the Surry Opera Company, and as organist and choral director in various places. At this time Kathleen is still active with the Surry Opera, is Director of Music at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Ellsworth, Maine, and is involved there in the Performer’s Showcase cafe - a coffee house and folk concert project. |
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