Bios
Elizabeth (Liz) Daniels, M.M., B.A., maintains a large private voice studio in Silver Spring, MD and is on the adjunct voice faculty at The Curtis Institute of Music and The Catholic University of America. She also is a master voice teacher for the Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program. Liz chairs the Education Committee of the Vocal Arts Society of Washington, producing their “Art Song Discovery Recital Series” and Public School Outreach Programs which promote live recital performances. Her students have won or placed in many prestigious competitions including the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Awards, Operalia, the Liederkranz Competition, Das Lied International Song Competition and the Seoul International Music Competition. Many of her students have been accepted into opera apprentice programs including those of Des Moines Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera North, the Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz and the Tanglewood and Aspen Music Festival summer programs. Liz enjoyed a distinguished career in opera, concert and recital in Chicago, New York and Washington, DC, and studied singing for thirty years with the late, great, Todd Duncan.
Cathryn (Cate) Frazier-Neely, M.M., B.M., maintains a large private studio of singers, actors and voice-over artists in Silver Spring, MD. She specializes in the development and rehabilitation of professional and amateur singers, in most forms of classical and popular music, most recently having worked with members of the Broadway touring cast of The Color Purple. Students have earned Broadway roles, contracts with Cirque de Soleil and Disney Tokyo, and roles in equity productions at Signature Theater, Arena Stage, Studio Theater, The Washington National Opera Chorus and WNO Children’s Chorus, Ford’s Theater, Olney Theater, Theater Alliance, and Imagination Stage. Cate’s own performing highlights include singing solo recitals of Nordic art song for the Smithsonian Resident Associates and at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She also opened Piccolo Spoleto’s Contemporary Music Festival, appeared as soloist with the John Cage Festival Orchestra, and in a recital of folk songs at the U.S. Capitol Building. Cate is also published composer. In addition to founding The Washington Vocal Consortium, she founded and directed the Levine School of Music’s Women’s Chorus, and Ceres, a women’s chorus, formed to perform at the Renwick Gallery of Art. Read more about Cate here.
Kathy Kessler Price, M.M., B.M., is in her 29th year as a teacher and singer, and is presently an adjunct voice professor at William Jewell College in Missouri. Currently studying at the University of Kansas, she is one of the few people in the U.S. to pursue a Ph.D in Vocal Pedagogy and is a presenting member of the Vocal/Choral Pedagogy Research Group. Kathy runs the Vocology Lab at U of Kansas, conducting vocal research on specialized computer programs. Her personal specialty is voice rehabilitation and the aging female voice with research presentations in national and international conferences. Kathy has performed extensively as a soprano soloist in the US and Europe, including venues such as The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, The White House, and in a solo concert tour of the Czech Republic. She is also an accomplished pianist and conducts the acclaimed DC ensemble Philomela and also maintains private voice studios in Kansas City and Virginia.
