ABOUT KATE
Known for her exceptionally talented students, Kate has enjoyed the teaching of all ages for the past 15 years. Her first studio, Hubbels Music on Hubbels Drive in Mt. Kisco, opened in 2014 next door to Jodi's Gym. Since then, she has been lucky to see students as young as four blossom into dedicated young musicians. She takes pride in running her studio (full of cat coffee mugs) a cut above the ordinary and bringing out the unique strengths in every student with a heavy dose of laughter along the way. Her graduated students have continued music through college and have gone on to have high achieving careers in law, computer science, business, medicine and engineering at schools including USC, NYU, Northeastern, UMD, Wesleyan, CWRU, and Fairfield University.
Kate holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance from Keene State College in Keene, New Hampshire, under the tutelage of George Loring (New England Conservatory), where she attended on talent scholarship. She also holds a Master of Arts in Teaching (Music) from Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. She has studied the piano and other keyboard instruments (organ and harpsichord) with Loring, Scott White, Maura Glennon, Flora Kuan, Francis Brancaleone and Jean Newton.
Her 2014 Early Music recording, La Plaintive, is available on Spotify.
Over the past decade, Kate has been involved in a cornucopia of musical projects and odd jobs, not limited to working as an accompanist for the Chappaqua school district, producing the 2018 youth rock band competition Bandito!, getting scouted on the theremin for America's Got Talent, playing synthesizers for several tribute groups, and bagpiping with the Stephen P. Driscoll Pipe Band. She is also a hired gun on bass guitar and coached a youth rock ensemble that competed in BandJam at the Ridgefield Playhouse, CT ('19 First Place, Middle School) and High School Rock Off ('22 Semi-Finalists) at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, OH.
From 2018-2020, Kate ran black-tie charity recitals at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center that showcased her intermediate and advanced students, plus special guest talent such as violinists Jaspar Rogal, Andy Bhasin and operatic soprano Jenny Beauregard. Ticket sales were donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
When not working, Kate enjoys building and restoring lamps, horticulture, 80s and 90s pop culture, and finishing fixing up her lake house with her musician boyfriend, Ian, and cats Nan and George.
