2019 Guest Artists
Beth Goldstein-McKee
Beth Goldstein-McKee brings her extensive performing and teaching experience to her work with students and teachers at institutes and workshops across the United States. A registered Suzuki Association of the Americas Cello Teacher Trainer, she was guest faculty at the 16th World Convention in Matsumoto, Japan and at the 24th International SuzukiFestival in Lima, Peru. She has served on the Board of Directors of the SAA, as Cello Coordinator for the 2016 SAA Conference, and she has been a presenter at the American String Teachers Association and the SAA conferences. Ms. Goldstein-McKee has recently moved to Western PA where she is starting a new generation of students and teaches at Hope Academy of Music and the Arts in Pittsburgh, Arts and Education at the Hoyt in New Castle, and in her private studios.
Ms. Goldstein-McKee maintained thriving studios on the west coast for over thirty years, first in Berkeley, CA and then in Ashland, OR. Her students placed (including first place) in the OMEA Solo Competitions at the state level, performed concertos with the YSSO and were selected to perform in master classes for Lynn Harrell, Daniel Schott- Muller, Peter Wiley, and Antonio Lysys amongst others. The summer programs they have attended have included Meadowmount, Encore, Indiana Strings Academy, Greenwood, National CelloInstitute as well as Suzuki Institutes.
In addition, in Ashland, OR, Ms. Goldstein-McKee coached cello sectionals and chamber music for the Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon, and played with the Rogue ValleySymphony, Rogue Opera, and in chamber orchestras. In California, she was also on the faculty of Holy Names College’s Suzuki Program and the East Bay Center for the PerformingArts. The cellist in several new music ensembles in Boston, NYC, and London, England, she received the National Endowment for the Humanities Youth Grant to bring contemporary classical music to new audiences. Ms. Goldstein-McKee, a native of NYC, graduated from Brandeis University and trained as a teacher of the Suzuki Method at the School for Strings, NYC.
Katherine Palumbo
Katherine Palumbo is a pianist and Alexander Technique teacher. She received her AlexanderTechnique teaching certificate from the Philadelphia School of the Alexander Technique and earned her degree in piano performance from Bucknell University. Katherine is passionate about helping performers feel more at ease, confident and connected with themselves both on and off stage. She has given workshops at the Freedom to Make Music Conference, Fairmont State University, Knox College, Bucknell University, American University and currently teaches the Alexander Technique at the West Virginia University School of Music. Palumbo also teachesAlexander Technique to massage therapy students at the Pittsburgh School for MassageTherapy and maintains a private studio of piano and Alexander Technique students from her home in Pittsburgh, PA.
As a musician, Katherine has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S. She explores her interest for contemporary chamber music through two ensembles that she has co-founded: The Trillium Ensemble and Khasma Piano Duo.
