2025 Teaching Update
Hey Singers! After 45 years of teaching, I’m now maintaining a light private zoom lesson schedule. *
I continue to collaborate with choral conductors to teach workshops for women’s choruses on navigating midlife hormones, aging and singing.
Starting this coming June I’m teaching new Circle Singing Classes at Arbutus Folk School in Olympia, Washington.
*Inquiries aways welcome for:
Singers or singing teachers navigating midlife hormonal changes to your singing voice, body and psyche. I am the co-author of the award-winning book “Singing Through Change: Women’s Voices in Midlife, Menopause and Beyond.”
Singers diagnosed with a vocal fold injury or pathology, recovering from surgery or experiencing singing challenges after a professional course of treatment. I’m a vetted non-clinical singing voice specialist who can work with your medical team during, or after, your rehabilitative & adaptive measures.
Voice teachers who want more joy & a deeper embodied understanding of their own singing. We can make the process of a new disciplined, wild joy fit into your busy life! I am a former, reviewed classical singer and a pioneer vocal pedagogue in folk traditions and popular musics training.
“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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“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. ”
