Kathy is very familiar with different learning styles, having taught music in the public schools before starting her family and having homeschooled her own children.

Everyone has a learning style whether visual, auditory, linguistic, kinesthetic, logical, social, solitary or a combination of more than one.

Music reaches every learning style!

Kathy’s voice students have had roles in shows with Sight & Sound Millennium Theatre, Lancaster, PA, Allenberry Playhouse, Boiling Springs, PA, Carlisle Theater Company, Carlisle, PA, DreamWrights Youth and Family Theater, York, PA, as well as have sung or currently sing in elementary, middle school & high school choirs, middle school & high school musicals, church choirs, children & youth choir programs and local bands. Kathy has established and held Summer Voice Workshops, Summer Music Camps and Summer Choir Camps.

Kathy’s piano students have become piano majors in college and church musicians as well as become collaborative pianists for vocalists, instrumentalists and choirs.

Kathy is the founder and director of the Carlisle Children & Youth Choir Program, for ages 5 - 18, now in its 15th year. The Choir Program provides quality music instruction and outstanding standard choral literature, while attaining the highest level of artistic excellence in choral performance.

Kathy’s experience in musical theater includes roles in The Fantasticks, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Guys and Dolls, Anything Goes, Camelot, South Pacific, Carnival and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

Kathy has sung with the Harrisburg Chamber Singers, the Susquehanna Chorale, the Harrisburg Singers, and the Harrisburg Diocese Schola.

Kathy has been a collaborative pianist for the Voice & Instrumental Department of Messiah College Music Department, the Allegheny Mountain Chapter of NATS, and the Violin Studios of Peter Sirotin and Anthony Luccia.

Kathy is a member of NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing), MTNA (Music Teacher's National Association), TVF (Total Vocal Freedom), Tim Topham’s Inner Circle (Supporting Innovating Piano Teaching), Vibrant Music Teaching, The SpeakEasy Cooperative (a Mentorship & Co-Working Cooperative created by & for Independent Voice Teachers), Carly Walton’s Teach Music Online, American Eurhythmics Society, and the Dalcroze Society of America.

Kathy completed Level I / II / III of Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method. She teaches using the principles she learned at the LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™.

Kathy is also certified in Neuro-Vocal Method with Meredith Colby, a developmentally appropriate and healthy approach to teaching popular styles based on brain science.

Kathy has extensive and on going training in the Alexander Technique for Voice Teachers from Total Vocal Freedom.

Kathy has studied New Science of Singing 2.0, The Science of Vocal Bridges, How to Teach Contemporary Voice, The Secrets of Belting, Boldly Belting, and Understanding Vocal Acoustics with John Henny.

Additional study includes Voice Lessons To The World Vocal Course with internationally-renowned voice teacher Justin Stoney and New York Vocal Coaching, Inc, Musical Theater Coaching with Nate Plummer, Stage Door Unlocked, Vocal Power Method Training for Contemporary Commercial Music with Elisabeth Howard, Estill Voice Training Level One and Two Course with Tom Burke and Contemporary Voice Teacher Training: Fundamentals of Mix, Belt, and Contemporary Legit with Emily Castleton Warner.

Kathy has a B.S. in Music Education from Messiah College and furthered her musical studies at Westminster Choir College with graduate courses in Vocal Pedagogy, Vocal Literature, Singer's Diction, Piano Pedagogy, Piano Literature, Choral Conducting, Church Choirs, Orff & Kodaly in Music Education and Children's Choirs.