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A native of Southern California, soprano Kathleen Terbeek received her B.A. in Music from Occidental College with a double major in Choral Conducting (with Dr. Howard Swan) and Vocal Performance (with soprano Marie Gibson). The following year she continued her vocal studies in Cologne, Germany, with Heinz Marten of the Rheinische Musikschule. Since then she has lived in California, Chicago, and Dallas, and continued her studies at UCLA (Collegium Musicum with Dr. Fred Hammond, art song and opera with Natalie Limonick), and De Paul University (Wagnerian mezzo Sonia Sharnova). Her abiding love of recital literature was nurtured by extensive work with Austrian soprano Irene Hanna, Schenkerian scholar Oswald Jonas, contemporary music specialist Elsa Charlston, and reinforced by the highly distinguished international faculty headed by Phyllis Bryn-Julson at the Lake Placid Institute for the Arts. With her husband, phonetician and countertenor Dale Terbeek, she established two ensembles for Early Music: in Los Angeles the Camerata Musicale, with period instruments and two singers; and in Chicago, Musicke and Sweet Poetrie, a quintet of voices performing frequently at the U of Chicago, The Art Institute, and other distinguished venues.
Moving to Texas, her experience with opera was emphatically amplified by doing small roles and chorus with The Dallas Opera (Maestri Nicola Rescigno and Roberto Benaglio and their successors), as well as the Fort Worth Opera and two operas at UTD by Prof. Robert Rodriguez. She also has been featured in multiple performances with the Texas Baroque Ensemble, the Dallas Bach Society, Voices of Change, The Walden Chamber Society, the New World Orchestra of Spain, and Limited Editions. She is well-known to audiences at The Mesquite Arts Center. Soloist at First Presbyterian Church of Dallas since 1981, she has continued to solo in the whole spectrum of styles encompassed by oratorio with churches and orchestras all over the Dallas-Fort Worth area, as she had in Chicago and Los Angeles. Her recital appearances with the revered pianist Harold Heiberg (UNT) have been well received in cities all over the United States.
Previously on the faculty at Richland College and Southern Methodist University, she has taught in the Voice Division of the TCU School of Music since 2000 and is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. She maintains an independent studio for singers at her residence in Garland TX, and she has a deep interest in Energy Psychology. It must be noted that she boasts of two brilliant sons and three extraordinary grandchildren. Currently she is preparing an October lecture-recital on the Songs of Charles Ives, also the role of Amahl's Mother in Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, come December. A performance of Hindemith's Das Marienleben with pianist Brian Bentley is anticipated for Spring '09.
(August '08)
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