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Kate Steinbeck

Kate SteinbeckKate 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 Playing FluteKate 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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