Education

A good teacher not only provides the tools required to achieve greater skill, but also inspires their students to be more creative, disciplined, and curious. After having the fortunate experience of studying with many inspirational organists, conductors, vocalists, and pianists, Cathy works to do the same for others.

Lessons and rehearsals should be tailored to the specific goals or each student, while developing proper technique and historically-informed performance practices. She works to build lasting relationships with her students, adding to the essential support-system that every aspiring young (or old) musician needs.

As a choir director, she begins teaching children from infancy, setting the tone that music should be a part of every human life. As children progress through her choir program they are exposed to music from different cultures, genres, and time periods. By the time they graduate from her program, not only can they read music but their eyes have been opened to a diverse world of sound and possibility.

She has been directing children’s choruses for over 25 years, giving young singers a safe place to experiment with their voices, teaching them how to sing organically, freely, and with confidence, giving hundreds of youth life-changing experiences and friendships centered around music.

As an organ instructor, her students have gone on to to major in performance, receiving scholarships at highly-acclaimed music schools and performing recitals in the Boston area. She is a teacher with the American Guild of Organists’ Young Organist Initiative and also enjoys leading youth-focused fun events like Pedals, Pipes & Pizza, to promoting an interest for the next generation of organists.

In her spare time, Cathy serves on the Visual & Performing Arts Curriculum Steering Committee for the Belmont Public Schools, is on executive boards for the Boston Chapter of the American Guild of Organists and Belmont Parents of Music Students, and serves on the School Advisory Council for her son’s elementary school.

If you would like to join one of Cathy’s choruses or begin organ instruction under her tutelage, please visit Request|Connect|Book and say hello. Her choruses are through South Church in Andover, Mass, which offer an extravagant and free welcome to all. She teaches private organ lessons at local churches in Belmont and Andover, Mass; please contact for rates and availability.