COMING SOON...
"Choral Arrangements" by Kate Polsky will be available for purchase beginning July 2009!
Contact: kate@katepolsky.com for more info

Fiona, Aretha and Norah meet for a martini…
piano, percussion, powerful…

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If you asked Kate Polsky when she started making her living as a musician, she’d tell you that it started the day she wrote the following on a slip of paper: “I will not limit the ways I am allowed to be a musician.”  And so for almost three decades, she has enjoyed working in three very different sectors of the industry:  performance, administration, and teaching.

As a performing musician, Kate has sung and played in venues from the Orpheum to BC Place to the Commodore Ballroom and beyond.  Administratively speaking, her past clients include Issa (formerly known as Jane Siberry), Festival Vancouver (now known as Musicfest Vancouver), and Music BC, eventually becoming its Executive Director (1999-2001).  As well, she has taught primarily at the secondary school level in both the private and public sectors.

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Kate is a classically trained pianist and an award-winning performing songwriter with three recordings to her credit.  She has toured in parts of Canada and the States, and in Vancouver, Kate performs her own material and has played keyboards and percussion as well as sung with several bands.  Not only has she appeared in several theatre productions over the past two decades, she has also directed, written, composed for, and / or choreographed almost two dozen theatre productions.  In 2006, Kate joined the internationally renowned Elektra Women's Choir and founded her own vocal jazz group, VERVE Collective in 2005. As a past Executive Director of Music BC, Kate was responsible for national and provincial funding programs, the editor of their newsletter, manager of province-wide conferences, BC representative for the Juno Awards and co-producer of the West Coast Music Awards, and has received many invitations to act as a guest speaker, panellist, event host and MC.
 
She is currently the choral music teacher at Carson Graham Secondary in North Vancouver (succeeding Janet Warren and Peter Taylor), where she has ample opportunity to write and arrange pieces for her concert and vocal jazz choirs.  She is also the Coordinator for Infusion: Arts in Education program, which provides professional development and resources for generalist teachers who want to bring arts-infused lessons into their classrooms, whatever the subject area may be.

Kate continues to work on new recordings with her husband, drummer / percussionist, Elliot Polsky.  These will be posted on this site as they become available throughout 2009.