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 Kate
Steinbeck has concentrated on the performance of chamber music
throughout her career. She has won critical acclaim for her engaging
and diverse performances, innate musicality and beauty of tone.
Born in New
York and raised in Tennessee and Western North Carolina, Kate attended
the North Carolina School of the Arts for one year of high school.
She later moved to Cleveland to study with William Hebert at Baldwin-Wallace
College where she earned a degree in flute performance. After college
she was awarded a Fulbright Grant for study and travel in Western
Europe. While a Fulbright scholar, she earned a First Prize in chamber
music from the Belgian Royal Conservatory in Liège and thereafter
spent several years performing and teaching in Stuttgart, Germany.
In 1988 Kate returned to the US to pursue a Master's degree at the
San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she studied with Tim Day.
While a freelance flutist and teacher in the San Francisco area,
Kate distinguished herself as a dynamic player of contemporary works
and chamber music. She was featured in concert on many Bay Area
series including San Francisco Performances, Composer's Inc., Old
First Concerts, Noontime Concerts and Pacifica Radio KPFA's Morning
Concerts. She freelanced with the Berkeley Symphony, North Bay Opera
and the Berkeley Contemporary Opera and also toured the Pacific
Northwest, played chamber music on a cruise ship through the waterways
of Alaska and performed in Japan.
 Kate
gave birth to her first child in 1997 and moved to Asheville, NC
to be with her partner and husband, flute maker Chris
Abell. After seventeen years of adventures and journeys, she
had come full circle–back to the southern mountains. Her recent
performance opportunities have included an invitation to play with
percussion ensemble, NEXUS, at the National Flute Association convention
in Atlanta in 1999, a Regional Artist Project Grant from the Asheville
Area Arts Council, and tours across the US.
Since 1998
she has produced numerous chamber music concerts and enjoyed collaborations
with esteemed musicians and artists of the Southeast including percussionist
Byron Hedgepeth, pianist Dewitt Tipton,
flutist Caroline Ulrich, bassist Eliot Wadopian, and guitarist Amy
Brucksch.
She is on the Artist Touring Rosters of North and South Carolina.
Kate founded the Keowee
Chamber Music Festival in 2001 and co-directs this Carolina
series each June.
One of Kate's missions is to elevate the art of the flute and chamber
music. She speaks French and German and loves to travel and experience
other cultures. She is committed to forging ties and encouraging
understanding between citizens of the US and other lands.
Kate Steinbeck plays exclusively on the modern wooden flute manufactured
by the Abell
Flute Co.
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Kate,
Live in Concert
Syrinx
Claude Debussy
Amazing
Grace John Newton
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