2026 Announcements
I am retired from private teaching and am happy to have received “Voice Teacher Emerita” status from the National Association of Teachers of Singing. I loved maintaining a private studio and serving many organizations and institutions for 46 years.
Currently I have developed and am teaching “Somatic ReEducation Through Circle Singing,” a fun workshop for organizations and singers interested in creating community, joy and diversity through embodied singing.
COMING UP
April and May 2026, Intro to Circle Singing classes sponsored by Olympia Dept of Arts and Recreation. (Check out their upcoming Spring catalog.)
March 21, 2026, Workshop on “Somatic ReEducation Through Circle Singing” for an eight adult treble choirs event in Seattle, WA. This will also include my presentation on possible singing voice changes through peri & post menopause and aging.
November 17, 2025, On-line masterclass for Encore Creativity for Older Adults with my co-authors, Bos and Bozeman
I am the co-author of the best selling, award-winning book “Singing Through Change: Women’s Voices in Midlife, Menopause and Beyond” with Joanne Bozeman and Nancy Bos.
“I highly recommend Cate for all advanced singers and voice teachers, particularly those who are having difficulties with singing for any reason. She’s a visionary educator who is profoundly perceptive and grounded. AND she is well-informed and practical, working in a functional and therapeutic manner. Cate’s musical soul enables her to work authentically in many genres and infuses all of her holistic work. I’m relieved and grateful to have found a life-long mentor in her.”
“I came across Cate’s blog article “Saliva and Singing,” and began working with her to prepare for my Broadway debut in a new musical written by Chris Thiele of The Punch Brothers. I am a hip-hop, Latino, electronica pop singer/recording artist and needed be able to sustain a strenuous live musical stage show feature of a very high lyrical range. Sad to say that project was abandoned due to the pandemic, but my lessons with Cate showed me different parts of myself which I carry with me today.”
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What singers say
“As a career jazz and R & B singer, I don’t trust my voice to just anyone. I worked with Cate during 3 years of peri-menopausal voice and life challenges. She helped me navigate the storm and come out the other side.”
“Cate is a highly qualified vocal expert & healer. Her background of high-level classical singing, long history of developing singers of all genres of music, and her own extensive recovery from physical and emotional trauma uniquely informs her work with professional singers, performers upping their skills, and those recovering from diagnosis of vocal fold injury. Her lifetime of investigation into our mind/body/heart knowledge has honed her wise sensibility and perception, lacking in the profession of teaching singing until recently. Her compassion for, and commitment to, the highest good of each of her students, and to the profession at large, is exemplary. ”
