ABOUT

VOICE the MUSIC  - music coaching Kate Brown.   (KEIGHT)

 

  Kate  (Keight)  has been teaching for over 20 years- Lessons and coaching in Piano, Guitar, Voice and Singing.

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KATE  HAS HAD STUDENTS WITH:   

CDMT agency in Mt. Pleasant SC,  Millie Lewis agency in Charleston SC, Maultsby Talent in Wilmington NC, Destination Broadway in NY , The Carolina Opry in Myrtle Beach, SC., the Wilmington Celebration Choir, Palmetto Dance Starz, Mini Tribute Legends in Concert, special events @ Alabama Theatre, and in other choirs & bands around the area including National Anthem singers seasonally for the Pelicans of MB, Conway Super Stars, NMBHS Miss.Talent, Horry County Fair, Honor’s Choir and student auditions (and alumni of) the SC Governor’s School of the Arts & Humanities. 

KATE HAS TAUGHT AT: 

the Myrtle Beach Education Center, Horry Geogetown Technical College, NMB Parks & Rec., and at Atlantic Coast Recording and Grand Strand Piano Center in the Myrtle Beach Mall.

More on background and Training:

 
  Piano and music theory at Oregon State University --  Joseph Brye

 Voice/opera studies from: 

Maestro David Kyle, Seattle WA. ~Brown Bradley, FPC Concerts,SC ~                                                 Patti Edward, Coastal Carolina University    ~                                                                                   Claude Stein NY Open Center, NYC       

     ~    Renaee Jackson, Myrtle Beach, SC

Guitar from professional players & self taught.

Other notable piano teachers have been Nancy Constantine, Faith Knox, & Harvey Brooks -                 Kate played piano in the  jazz big band The Bluetones).   She has 14 years experience playing piano for choirs both concert and jazz, (including performances and tours), along with playing piano nightly 2009-2010 at the Palace Theatre in Myrtle Beach, and for local churches. She also has 3 years experience playing flute in concert band. 

 Presently Kate is in her 9th year as piano accompanist at Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church in North Myrtle Beach SC.  She plays piano (and organ)  for both English and Spanish Masses, as well as weddings, funerals, quincineras, baptisms/confirmations, choir rehearsals and holiday and religious concerts. 
 
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REVIEWS of  KATE'S  original music and live performing:

Weekly Surge Magazine of SC calls Keight-  (Kate Brown)
"the chanteuse and Coffee House Queen"...and in live performance, "one of the best singer/songwriter's of the southeast..",,, "harmonically adventurous chords and voicings that veer far outside the well trodden,,,"

TAXI calls one of her songs "recorded brilliantly". Other TAXI Reviews:.." Voice has some stylizations that remind me of the singers in the band Heart"..."she has a good command of her craft and a signature style"..."Original in style and overall approach.". ."Great singer/songs well written/cohesive".

"Major talent, great voice."...SuperFrog Productions

"Soulful, entrancing and moving. You have to stop and listen." ,,, Former WXDU Durham DJ Heather Okvat "

"...fantastic!..." The Palace Theatre, Myrtle Beach, SC.
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Keight has theatre experience casted in musicals and film experience, including as a child singing in the French film Itineraire D'un Enfant Gate, music by composer Francis Lai. She has also performed with the Carolina Master Chorale and played piano nightly at The Palace Theatre in Myrtle Beach SC. Playing in bands and as solo artist for over 20 years; she also performs acting in theatre productions.
  
Acting Experience 

 

PLAY/ *FILM                                                     ROLE                                         DIRECTOR

Trail of Tears                                        Connie-waitress                     Joe Disabatino

 

 Two Actors In Search of Their Author          Scarlett O'Hara           Joe Disabatino

 

Bhau Meets Wall Street                      Anita Spivey                       Joe Disabatino

 

 Spoon River Anthology                Amanda Barker, Mrs. Kessler,    Paul Allen                                                                                                                                               Margaret Slack Fuller, Mrs. Merritt   

                                                                                                                            

Oz Meets Midsummer's Night Dream     Puck                      Joe Disabatino

L'Amore Divino in Portofino	Rosie	Joe Disabatino
L'Amore Divino in Portofino	Tino (1933)	Joe Disabatino
Peggy's Funeral	Loretta	Act Two Prods. Paul Allen
Heartbreak Hotel	Satyr	Joe Disabatino
The Missing Book	Keight	Joe Disabatino
The Gaslight Club	Nancy Turner	Act Two Prods Paul Allen
On Stage	Earnest	Act Two Prods.Paul Allen
Three Fools From the Future	Fool 2	Joe DiSabatino
Anthony and Antoninette	Margo	Joe DiSabatino
*All Hallow's Eve	extra	Git's Entertainment
Sketch-Acts	players	MICT
*Itineraire D'un Enfant Gate	Singing Peasant	Claude Le Louch
Oliver!	Charlotte	Boterweg
Oliver!	Rose Lady	Boterweg
HMS Pinafore	Sailor	Boterweg
Hey George!	Farm-girl	Boterweg

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 MAESTRO DAVID KYLE

• ... by the age of 20, and was given his title of Maestro by the renowned conductor Arthur Fiedler from the Boston symphony orchestra. During his early career he shared an office with Irving Berlin at Carnegie Hall. The Maestro taught voice for 25 years at his studio in Carnegie Hall in New York, conducted the San Francisco symphony orchestra for 4 years, and taught voice for 30 years in Seattle. He trained some of the most famous stars in show business history. Imagine the walls of his West Seattle studio hidden by framed and autographed photos of people such as Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Mae West, John Wayne, Judy Garland, Ann and Nancy Wilson, Kenny G, Geoff Tate, Layne Staley... The Maestro passed away in 2004 at the age of 87, but lives on through the great voices he trained, and a legacy of life changing principles he enthusiastically shared with his students. Positive words of wisdom and loving encouragement poured from his soul. He was Wonderful!     
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  Vocal teacher for rock, metal and jazz singers for over 50 years, David Kyle, The “Maestro” became a local Seattle icon and was considered by the industry to be one of the best vocal instructors for contemporary singers in the country. Unique to the “Maestro’s” approach was his method for expanding vocal range into multiple “registers”, while eliminating psychological barriers that hinder singers’ freedom of expression, by use of creative visualization techniques. 
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