An Afternoon of Romantic Music
Soprano Katie North Peck and pianist Kathleen Haddock will perform works of Faure, Schumann, Schubert, Bellini, Richard Strauss, Catalini, and Johann Strauss.
Soprano Katie Peck is a Skaneateles graduate who attended Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, Canada. While majoring in Political Science, she studied voice as an elective where she
was first introduced to opera music. A classically trained pianist who once studied with Kathleen Haddock, she now focuses her music training on voice. She began training with Marcus and Kathleen after the birth of her two children. Since then she has grown her opera
repertoire to include arias from composers such as Bellini, Puccini, Mozart, Massenet, Handel, Bizet, Verdi and more. In addition to singing, Katie owns a small business, She Rents Vintage,
where she is lucky to have another creative outlet. She spends her free time playing with her kids and cooking.
Kathleen Haddock currently works as a part time professor at Syracuse University as a vocal coach and instructor of piano and voice/piano ensemble classes.She earned her Masters in Piano Performance from Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and a second Masters in Vocal Coaching and Collaborative Arts from Boston University. She was music director of the Belmont Opera studio and remained as a staff accompanist at BU. For several years. She went on to become faculty at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, then moved to Europe for 10 years with her husband where she was active in German opera houses as accompanist and coach as well as performing recitals and concerts with singers and instrumentalists.
