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ABOUT KAYE

Kaye has been professionally involved in music for most of her life.  She has sung, played, taught and conducted in many venues, performing and teaching a wide variety of musical styles. She has served as Organist and Director of Music in the Episcopal Church since 1991, and is currently at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Durham, NC where she directs an a adult choir, children’s choir, handbell choir, and in 2017 was integral in the church’s acquisition of a 1990 M. P. Moller three-manual pipe organ.

Kaye holds both bachelor’s (Coastal Carolina University), where she also taught as adjunct music professor, and master’s (Graduate Theological Foundation) degrees in music, and has done doctoral studies in vocal performance at the University of South Carolina.  Over the years she has taught voice and piano to adults and children of many different ages.  In addition to her private teaching and tutoring, she is a certified instructor in the early childhood curriculum Musikgarten, and has directed children’s choirs which have traveled and sung in the US and England.  She has also been musical director for many musical theatre productions.  

Kaye enjoys her work as a vocalist, having sung throughout the Southeast during her twenty years’ residence in South Carolina where she was a featured soprano soloist with many organizations such as Piccolo Spoleto (Charleston), The Long Bay (Myrtle Beach) Symphony, Carolina Master Chorale, Pawleys Island Festival of Music and Art, and in numerous other community venues.  

During her 1991-2008 tenure as Director of Music and organist at (the former) Trinity Episcopal Church in Myrtle Beach, SC, she founded the Trinity Performing Arts Series, which over a thirteen-year period presented over eighty musical concerts and events, including a widely-attended annual performance of Handel’s Messiah with orchestra which continues to this day. Kaye is also a composer whose choral works are published with St. James Music Press (sjmp.com). She was one of the semi-finalists in the 2020 Lois Fyfe Choral Composition Contest for her piece New Every Morning Is the Love.