Kathy is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, and a student of the late jazz pianist/author Jimmy Amadie. She has performed throughout greater metropolitan Philadelphia and New Jersey.
After transplanting to Florida, she continued to perform and teach, earning a Master’s Degree from the University of Central Florida, studying jazz piano, arranging and composing with Per Danielsson. The joy of arranging and composition sent her on to earn a graduate certificate in jazz arranging and composing at the University of South Florida, studying with Chuck Owen.
Kathy composes and arranges for all size jazz ensembles, especially enjoying the beautiful sound pallet and unlimited options for creativity offered by a standard jazz big band setting.
Her jazz works have been performed at the Blue Bamboo Center for the Arts in Winter Park (FL), Stetson University in Deland (FL), Ithaca College (NY) and the Eastman School of Music (NY).
Kathy maintains a private piano studio, working with all ages and levels. Her formal classroom teaching has covered all grades, as well as many years of college level basic keyboard skills, ear training, and theory and harmony studies. She has also served as music director for many high school musicals and a professional children’s theater production, as well as working as an accompanist and piano instructor in the AdventHealth School of the Arts within the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Orlando.
