Cathy Lawrence

Cathy has a master's degree in Voice and Opera from Mannes College of Music ('87). She studied voice with Judith Nicosia, Margaret Hoswell, Pat Misslin, Steve Smith, and Jeanie Lovetri along with singing-acting studies with H. Wesley Balk throughout the mid to late 1980s. She was ordained as Cantor from the Academy for Jewish Religion ('03). She has Level III certification in Somatic Voicework, the Lovetri Method ('09). She was Faculty at the Mannes College of Music -The New School, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy. She was a soloist with Minnesota Opera (New Works Ensemble), Connecticut Grand Opera, Long Beach Opera, Virginia Symphony, the Amato Opera, and others, and with Gamelan Son of Lion, and Mothra, a nine woman rock band. She was the stage and musical director for Citywide Youth Opera in NYC and the Summer Arts Festival in Albany and directed and studied at The Barrow Group Theater in Manhattan. She also directed graduate and undergraduate students in the Opera Scenes Class at Mannes College of Music, taught singing-acting workshops at Mannes and Queens College in NYC and in the Vozplena school in Rio de Janiero and is an ordained cantor. Her late husband Stephen Lawrence was a well known composer, whose website you may view here: www.stephenlawrencemusic.com. Her sons, Sam and Nicholas Kline, have a trio (which she manages and coaches) that plays acoustic versions of classic rock music.