top of page

Kate

I'm learning to embrace being a "jack of many trades, master of none" and so a few months ago I started to learn to play this cute little instrument. I am not very good at it, but I can make music with it! So tonight I'm taking it with me to perform at @onthespotnyc (info in my story) I'm excited to share my baby uke skills with other people.

Oh and Mike snapped this photo of me practicing yesterday and captured part of a super difficult puzzle he's working on, which he will complete with little-to-no help from me because I'm pretty useless in that area. Just felt it important to give credit where it's due 🧩 🙃

I'm learning to embrace being a "jack of many trades, master of none" and so a few months ago I started to learn to play this cute little instrument. I am not very good at it, but I can make music with it! So tonight I'm taking it with me to perform at @onthespotnyc (info in my story) I'm excited to share my baby uke skills with other people.

Oh and Mike snapped this photo of me practicing yesterday and captured part of a super difficult puzzle he's working on, which he will complete with little-to-no help from me because I'm pretty useless in that area. Just felt it important to give credit where it's due 🧩 🙃

One more post-closing post with some production photos and backstage moments with our Beautiful family😍 Special thanks to @brentkuenning for thinking to capture those times I had to swing on with thirty minutes notice 😅

One more post-closing post with some production photos and backstage moments with our Beautiful family😍 Special thanks to @brentkuenning for thinking to capture those times I had to swing on with thirty minutes notice 😅

Family photo ❤️ This beautiful contract was certainly one for the books... and I am infinitely grateful the universe brought us all together.

Family photo ❤️ This beautiful contract was certainly one for the books... and I am infinitely grateful the universe brought us all together.

Day 2 of Round 2: I'm ringing in the new year at @thewickorg reprising my role as the Carole King understudy. I resolve to try to follow Carole's advice this year to "get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart." Happy New Year! I hope 2025 brings you lots of beautiful things ❤️

Edit on 1/6/25 to add that in addition to covering Carole, I'm now also covering Cynthia Weil, Betty, Marilyn, and Genie. 🏌🏻🌟🌴🎶🤗

Day 2 of Round 2: I'm ringing in the new year at @thewickorg reprising my role as the Carole King understudy. I resolve to try to follow Carole's advice this year to "get up every morning with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart." Happy New Year! I hope 2025 brings you lots of beautiful things ❤️

Edit on 1/6/25 to add that in addition to covering Carole, I'm now also covering Cynthia Weil, Betty, Marilyn, and Genie. 🏌🏻🌟🌴🎶🤗

Grateful to have caroled my way through December with some lovely singers at many merry events! I'll be doing a different kind of "caroleing" again in January and February... stay tuned 🙃🎶

Grateful to have caroled my way through December with some lovely singers at many merry events! I'll be doing a different kind of "caroleing" again in January and February... stay tuned 🙃🎶

"1. Pursue the truth! 2. Learn something new! 3. Accept yourself and you'll accept others too! 4. Let love shine! 5. Let pride be your guide! 6. YOU CHANGE THE WORLD WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND!" ❤️👠❤�️👠❤️👠❤️👠❤️👠❤️👠Kinky Boots at Gallery Players closed yesterday after three sold out weekends. What an immense privilege it was to share the stage with this incredible group of artists. Thank you so much to our director @ryanahendricks for trusting me with Pat.

"1. Pursue the truth! 2. Learn something new! 3. Accept yourself and you'll accept others too! 4. Let love shine! 5. Let pride be your guide! 6. YOU CHANGE THE WORLD WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND!" ❤️👠❤️👠❤️👠❤️👠❤️👠❤️👠Kinky Boots at Gallery Players closed yesterday after three sold out weekends. What an immense privilege it was to share the stage with this incredible group of artists. Thank you so much to our director @ryanahendricks for trusting me with Pat.

I am so thrilled to be playing Pat in The Gallery Players production of Kinky Boots! We started rehearsals last week, and let me tell you, this cast is incredible 🤩. Come let us raise you up this November! Ticket info can be found here at this link and via @thegalleryplayers page https://www.tickettailor.com/events/galleryplayers/1322324?

I am so thrilled to be playing Pat in The Gallery Players production of Kinky Boots! We started rehearsals last week, and let me tell you, this cast is incredible 🤩. Come let us raise you up this November! Ticket info can be found here at this link and via @thegalleryplayers page https://www.tickettailor.com/events/galleryplayers/1322324?

Thanks to Heidi Moss Erickson’s INCREDIBLE “Singing in the Brain: Breath” course I took over the weekend** I spent time today with the ridiculous but educational “snowman challenge.” I have absolutely no idea how or why this trend started (apparently it was a hit in 2020) but you'll see the task is to sing an insanely long phrase of this Sia song in one breath. Sia very clearly does not sing all of this in one breath in her recording, but I now join the ranks of people on the internet who can do it 😆 I did not succeed on my first try, but I troubleshot via monitoring dynamic level, aspirate consonants, clarity vs. breathiness in the tone, and of course the amount and quality of the breath I took to start.

See if you can do it too and let me know how you managed it! And/or enjoy a fun and fascinating rabbit hole to go down by doing an internet search for "snowman challenge"

To my voice teachers friends: we know it’s not advisable to sing below REL (resting expiratory level) but at this low volume and low pitch range I figured it was an acceptable risk to take in pursuit of completing the challenge :)

**Heidi Moss Erikson is a brilliant and inspiring singer, scientist, and teacher with a remarkable life story. https://www.heidimosserickson.com/

Thanks to Heidi Moss Erickson’s INCREDIBLE “Singing in the Brain: Breath” course I took over the weekend** I spent time today with the ridiculous but educational “snowman challenge.” I have absolutely no idea how or why this trend started (apparently it was a hit in 2020) but you'll see the task is to sing an insanely long phrase of this Sia song in one breath. Sia very clearly does not sing all of this in one breath in her recording, but I now join the ranks of people on the internet who can do it 😆 I did not succeed on my first try, but I troubleshot via monitoring dynamic level, aspirate consonants, clarity vs. breathiness in the tone, and of course the amount and quality of the breath I took to start.

See if you can do it too and let me know how you managed it! And/or enjoy a fun and fascinating rabbit hole to go down by doing an internet search for "snowman challenge"

To my voice teachers friends: we know it’s not advisable to sing below REL (resting expiratory level) but at this low volume and low pitch range I figured it was an acceptable risk to take in pursuit of completing the challenge :)

**Heidi Moss Erikson is a brilliant and inspiring singer, scientist, and teacher with a remarkable life story. https://www.heidimosserickson.com/

📸 from our Summer Sing on Friday! Huge thank you to @youngethels for hosting us.

📸 from our Summer Sing on Friday! Huge thank you to @youngethels for hosting us.

Come join us next Friday, July 19 at Young Ethel's for A Summer Sing! These wonderful people will be sharing songs (mostly folk, pop, and musical theater if you're curious) and it is going to be beautiful. I am very excited.

Come join us next Friday, July 19 at Young Ethel's for A Summer Sing! These wonderful people will be sharing songs (mostly folk, pop, and musical theater if you're curious) and it is going to be beautiful. I am very excited.

🎵🌞 summer musical adventures, so far: playing painted pianos, Monday nights at Birdland (have I mentioned how much I love @jimcarusoscastparty ?), a free harmonica workshop with @heharmonica for Make Music Day, and lots of time utilizing the free practice space initiatives at @ghmusicschool and @brooklynconservatory which both have neat musical touches to their architecture 🔍

🎵🌞 summer musical adventures, so far: playing painted pianos, Monday nights at Birdland (have I mentioned how much I love @jimcarusoscastparty ?), a free harmonica workshop with @heharmonica for Make Music Day, and lots of time utilizing the free practice space initiatives at @ghmusicschool and @brooklynconservatory which both have neat musical touches to their architecture 🔍

Sing for Hope piano launch 2024 🎨🎹! It was fun to play a little Bach in unison with twenty four others on this year's pianos! Go check them out in their community spots the rest of this month @singforhope 🙂

https://singforhope.org/pianos/nyc-2024

Sing for Hope piano launch 2024 🎨🎹! It was fun to play a little Bach in unison with twenty four others on this year's pianos! Go check them out in their community spots the rest of this month @singforhope 🙂

https://singforhope.org/pianos/nyc-2024

Reunion 🙂

Reunion 🙂

It's been some kind of wonderful putting on a show with this beautiful group 🎹🤩🎙️🧀 Happy closing to us!

It's been some kind of wonderful putting on a show with this beautiful group 🎹🤩🎙️🧀 Happy closing to us!

So super happy to be here at @firesidetheatre in rehearsals as Marilyn Wald/Carole King understudy 😍

So super happy to be here at @firesidetheatre in rehearsals as Marilyn Wald/Carole King understudy 😍

A finger puppet trio sings Bach's harmonization of "In dulci jubilo" BWV 368

I was on a real "In dulci jubilo" kick this past December, comparing and contrasting many versions of this ancient melody, starting with The Swingles version from their delightful 1990 album Spotlight on Bach, and then harmonizations by Hassler, Holst, Pearsall, and this one by Bach, Liszt's piano arrangement from Weihnachtsbaum, and BWV 729. The melody kept popping up here and there, including very unexpectedly at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's holiday light show: https://photos.app.goo.gl/P2hyLJNSvrsoqSBeA

I have figured just enough about using Audacity to make multi track recordings and I have practically zero skills in video editing, but I was able to make this happen using iMovie. I enjoyed myself and I just might make another one soon, with the hopes that I'll get better at it as I go.

10/10 would recommend singing with finger puppets to add levity and fun to practicing:) Thank you to @joyfully.jill (who is a real puppeteer!) for introducing me to these cuties a few years ago. I have a whole bag, so if you're a singer needing some play in your practice let me know :)

A finger puppet trio sings Bach's harmonization of "In dulci jubilo" BWV 368

I was on a real "In dulci jubilo" kick this past December, comparing and contrasting many versions of this ancient melody, starting with The Swingles version from their delightful 1990 album Spotlight on Bach, and then harmonizations by Hassler, Holst, Pearsall, and this one by Bach, Liszt's piano arrangement from Weihnachtsbaum, and BWV 729. The melody kept popping up here and there, including very unexpectedly at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's holiday light show: https://photos.app.goo.gl/P2hyLJNSvrsoqSBeA

I have figured just enough about using Audacity to make multi track recordings and I have practically zero skills in video editing, but I was able to make this happen using iMovie. I enjoyed myself and I just might make another one soon, with the hopes that I'll get better at it as I go.

10/10 would recommend singing with finger puppets to add levity and fun to practicing:) Thank you to @joyfully.jill (who is a real puppeteer!) for introducing me to these cuties a few years ago. I have a whole bag, so if you're a singer needing some play in your practice let me know :)

🔔 Merry Christmas if you celebrate, and warm wishes to you regardless! This harmonization of I Heard the Bells was one of my favorite carols this season and so I transposed it into an easier key for me to sing when I was without my quartet buddies. It's been particularly difficult to want to sing about peace on earth and all that this year, but I did anyway and hope that putting this into the universe will do a bit of good. Words: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1864. Music: John B. Calkin, 1872

🔔 Merry Christmas if you celebrate, and warm wishes to you regardless! This harmonization of I Heard the Bells was one of my favorite carols this season and so I transposed it into an easier key for me to sing when I was without my quartet buddies. It's been particularly difficult to want to sing about peace on earth and all that this year, but I did anyway and hope that putting this into the universe will do a bit of good. Words: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1864. Music: John B. Calkin, 1872

🍂autumnal stoops 🍂

(none of these are our stoop because we do not have one)

🍂autumnal stoops 🍂

(none of these are our stoop because we do not have one)

Join us tonight and/or tomorrow for the world premiere of Benedict Sheehan's "epic meditation on choosing gratitude," in person or via livestream. I'm confident you will be glad you did ❤️ This orchestra, the soloists, our joined choral forces, and the material itself truly are epic. Details on the last slide, or at this link: https://trinitywallstreet.org/events/akathist-2023-11-10?date=2023-11-10

Join us tonight and/or tomorrow for the world premiere of Benedict Sheehan's "epic meditation on choosing gratitude," in person or via livestream. I'm confident you will be glad you did ❤️ This orchestra, the soloists, our joined choral forces, and the material itself truly are epic. Details on the last slide, or at this link: https://trinitywallstreet.org/events/akathist-2023-11-10?date=2023-11-10

I have long loved this beautiful duet by Johnny Flynn, so I was delighted when a couple singers I work with brought it into a lesson recently. I made a transcription of it to help them learn the harmonies, and as someone who routinely benefits from transcriptions made by strangers across the world, I am so happy to share this one!

https://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/9c68496c20731f5a6b9238d6ad318ce796bc11cd

I have long loved this beautiful duet by Johnny Flynn, so I was delighted when a couple singers I work with brought it into a lesson recently. I made a transcription of it to help them learn the harmonies, and as someone who routinely benefits from transcriptions made by strangers across the world, I am so happy to share this one!

https://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/9c68496c20731f5a6b9238d6ad318ce796bc11cd

Songs for my brothers: "Bright Eyes" for MOH and "The Seeker" for PJH. If you would like to hear more, you can find the whole songs at the link in bio. I hope hearing my humble music making is somehow useful to you today, and regardless I send my love and encouragement and whatever other vibes you might need!

#thankfulforthemusic

Songs for my brothers: "Bright Eyes" for MOH and "The Seeker" for PJH. If you would like to hear more, you can find the whole songs at the link in bio. I hope hearing my humble music making is somehow useful to you today, and regardless I send my love and encouragement and whatever other vibes you might need!

#thankfulforthemusic

Inspired by @thevillagetripfestival 's recent Vexation marathon, I started a new project this week �😆 This was "vexation" number 100 of 840. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw0A0_Du9r5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Inspired by @thevillagetripfestival 's recent Vexation marathon, I started a new project this week 😆 This was "vexation" number 100 of 840. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw0A0_Du9r5/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Welcome to the Internet, by Bo Burnham (minus the first half because I don't think the internet needs to hear all that vulgarity come out of my mouth). I don't know about you, but this song perfectly expresses what the internet feels like to me, anyway . Learning this song was suuuper cathartic in a weird way 😆

Welcome to the Internet, by Bo Burnham (minus the first half because I don't think the internet needs to hear all that vulgarity come out of my mouth). I don't know about you, but this song perfectly expresses what the internet feels like to me, anyway . Learning this song was suuuper cathartic in a weird way 😆

What a gift to be a part of this beautiful group of life-long learners last week ❤️🤓 #avpw2023 class photo courtesy of this post from Embodied Music Lab's Ian Howell- https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10103747207662604&set=a.640511856944 👏Big public thank you to core faculty Ian Howell, Ken Bozeman, Chadley Ballantyne, along with Marci Rosenberg, Joanne Bozeman, and Bodo Maass. Thanks to each of you, I am more curious and more motivated than ever ❤️

What a gift to be a part of this beautiful group of life-long learners last week ❤️🤓 #avpw2023 class photo courtesy of this post from Embodied Music Lab's Ian Howell- https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10103747207662604&set=a.640511856944 👏Big public thank you to core faculty Ian Howell, Ken Bozeman, Chadley Ballantyne, along with Marci Rosenberg, Joanne Bozeman, and Bodo Maass. Thanks to each of you, I am more curious and more motivated than ever ❤️

#thankfulforthemusic June/July 2023 edition: see below for an assortment of highlights and musings, or just enjoy this photo I took of my favorite city on a rare clear skied evening earlier this month 🙂

- Connection with Julie Gold, the inspired songwriter who wrote the grammy award winning “From a Distance” She came across my cover of her song “Love is Love is Love” on Youtube earlier this year and graciously reached out to me, and then generously offered to meet for lunch this June, which was very apropos timing. Her music is great, so if you don’t know it, check it out!
- Hosted a “midsummer sing” for my singers. As much as I love helping singers with their vocal technique, it is also so fun to be their collaborative pianist and cheerleader while they perform for each other 🥰 I also got them all singing a round together!
- Found myself playing one of my favorite pieces by Francois Couperin frequently this summer, and because I think it's interesting to notice differences in timbre across pianos and the rooms they are in, I created a version of Les Baricades Misterieuses using recordings from ten pianos around the city. Link in bio
- Soooo much practicing at Greenwich House Music school because of the wonderful free rehearsal space offer. My neighbors and I thank you very much!!
- This probably will feel a bit random, but I want to encourage you to KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK if you’re feeling frustrated while working on learning or honing a skill. I believe I am proof that with diligent hard work, resilience, perseverance, coupled of course with guidance from skillful teachers, growth you probably can’t even fathom is possible. I am singing more skillfully than I ever have before, enjoying far more moments of joy than frustration. My rather objective evidence for that claim is the following: increased stamina, more versatility in colors and registration choices I have, greater power (louder is obviously not always better but it is a workplace requirement for singing over an organ unamplified!), stylistic flexibility... see comments for more if you can stand it 😆

#thankfulforthemusic June/July 2023 edition: see below for an assortment of highlights and musings, or just enjoy this photo I took of my favorite city on a rare clear skied evening earlier this month 🙂

- Connection with Julie Gold, the inspired songwriter who wrote the grammy award winning “From a Distance” She came across my cover of her song “Love is Love is Love” on Youtube earlier this year and graciously reached out to me, and then generously offered to meet for lunch this June, which was very apropos timing. Her music is great, so if you don’t know it, check it out!
- Hosted a “midsummer sing” for my singers. As much as I love helping singers with their vocal technique, it is also so fun to be their collaborative pianist and cheerleader while they perform for each other 🥰 I also got them all singing a round together!
- Found myself playing one of my favorite pieces by Francois Couperin frequently this summer, and because I think it's interesting to notice differences in timbre across pianos and the rooms they are in, I created a version of Les Baricades Misterieuses using recordings from ten pianos around the city. Link in bio
- Soooo much practicing at Greenwich House Music school because of the wonderful free rehearsal space offer. My neighbors and I thank you very much!!
- This probably will feel a bit random, but I want to encourage you to KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK if you’re feeling frustrated while working on learning or honing a skill. I believe I am proof that with diligent hard work, resilience, perseverance, coupled of course with guidance from skillful teachers, growth you probably can’t even fathom is possible. I am singing more skillfully than I ever have before, enjoying far more moments of joy than frustration. My rather objective evidence for that claim is the following: increased stamina, more versatility in colors and registration choices I have, greater power (louder is obviously not always better but it is a workplace requirement for singing over an organ unamplified!), stylistic flexibility... see comments for more if you can stand it 😆

Happy Make Music Day! I convinced Mike to celebrate with me by learning this song while we hiked today. Please pardon our windblown and grungy appearance and imprecise tuning 😆

I hope that every day, but especially today, if you want to sing out, you'll sing out!! @yusufcatstevens

#musicisforeveryone #makemusicday2023 #ifyouwanttosingoutsingout #thankfulforthemusic

Happy Make Music Day! I convinced Mike to celebrate with me by learning this song while we hiked today. Please pardon our windblown and grungy appearance and imprecise tuning 😆

I hope that every day, but especially today, if you want to sing out, you'll sing out!! @yusufcatstevens

#musicisforeveryone #makemusicday2023 #ifyouwanttosingoutsingout #thankfulforthemusic

Heading home from Philadelphia after a couple days at this year’s Voice Foundation Symposium (my first one) more excited and more curious about the voice than ever. I was starstruck just being in the room with so many of the people who quite literally wrote (and are actively writing) the books/articles/etc. The interdisciplinary work that is being done among laryngologists, slps, voice teachers, and others is inspiring and beautiful. Today alone I learned new things about choral tuning, extended vocal techniques through the lens of CVT, shape notes and the Sacred Harp tradition, historical bel canto ped, exercises for advanced belting training, and a voice mapping software I’d been unaware of. It’s a good thing I’ve come to embrace and even enjoy the fact that the more I learn, the less sure of the answers I become.

@tvfphiladelphia

Heading home from Philadelphia after a couple days at this year’s Voice Foundation Symposium (my first one) more excited and more curious about the voice than ever. I was starstruck just being in the room with so many of the people who quite literally wrote (and are actively writing) the books/articles/etc. The interdisciplinary work that is being done among laryngologists, slps, voice teachers, and others is inspiring and beautiful. Today alone I learned new things about choral tuning, extended vocal techniques through the lens of CVT, shape notes and the Sacred Harp tradition, historical bel canto ped, exercises for advanced belting training, and a voice mapping software I’d been unaware of. It’s a good thing I’ve come to embrace and even enjoy the fact that the more I learn, the less sure of the answers I become.

@tvfphiladelphia

It's Thursday and I'm wishing I was heading to Gallery Players to make theater with this special group of people tonight! 🥲❤️

📸 of us being silly before our closing show last Sunday, courtesy of @jujimars

I tagged everyone so you can follow them because I have no doubt they'll be up to amazing things in the future that you won't want to miss!

It's Thursday and I'm wishing I was heading to Gallery Players to make theater with this special group of people tonight! 🥲❤️

📸 of us being silly before our closing show last Sunday, courtesy of @jujimars

I tagged everyone so you can follow them because I have no doubt they'll be up to amazing things in the future that you won't want to miss!

Sharing a few more of my favorite production shots from Assassins as we head toward our final weekend of performances. This is a really special group of people, and I'm just lucky to be associated. Come see for yourself! https://www.galleryplayers.com/musicals/assassins/. 📸 @katvecchio @steven_pisano

Sharing a few more of my favorite production shots from Assassins as we head toward our final weekend of performances. This is a really special group of people, and I'm just lucky to be associated. Come see for yourself! https://www.galleryplayers.com/musicals/assassins/. 📸 @katvecchio @steven_pisano

We opened last night! Come hear "the other national anthem -not the one you cheer at the ballpark" now through May 28 https://www.galleryplayers.com/musicals/assassins/

📸 @katvecchio
@alukomnik

We opened last night! Come hear "the other national anthem -not the one you cheer at the ballpark" now through May 28 https://www.galleryplayers.com/musicals/assassins/

📸 @katvecchio
@alukomnik

.pro-gallery-wix-wrapper {display: block !important;} .pro-gallery-wix-wrapper .gallery-item-container {opacity: 1 !important; display: block !important;}

What's been going on?
**this is very likely not a comprehensive list, as I'm not always on top of updating it.

Kinky Boots

"You change the world when you change your mind!" I'm very grateful to be cast as Pat in the Gallery Players production of this heartwarming and fun musical!

November 3, 2024

The Wick Theater, Boca Raton, FL

I've been cast in The Wick's production of Beautiful as the Carole King cover (this time with a few guaranteed performances) and ensemble. Later in the Wick's season I'll be appearing in My Way, A Frank Sinatra tribute.

January 16, 2025

A Summer Sing

I hosted a cabaret night for my singing students at Young Ethel's Bar. It brings me great joy to accompany them as they share their voices with friends and family!

July 19, 2024

bottom of page