Kathy's Biography

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=80 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="05600500dvldtc.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Kathy's Biography</B></FONT><B>   </B></div> <div> <B>Kathy's Biography</B>   |   <A HREF="home14.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Suburban Revolutionaries"><U>Suburban Revolutionaries</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=225 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="057e1c00dvldtc.gif"> <div> <IMG SRC="072d8430.jpg" border=0 width="216" height="323" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=400 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> Kathy's Biography</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Kathy King Wouk</B></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@kathykingwouk.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@kathykingwouk.com"><U><U>info@kathykingwouk.com</U></U></A></div> <div> <B>Musical Biography</B></div> <bR> <div> <U>Writing for musical theater: </U></div> <div> <I><B>Suburban Revolutionaries.</B></I>   This two act musical has a book by playwright, Jenny Lyn Bader and Kathy's music and lyrics.   <I>Suburban Revolutionaries </I>is currently in development in 2009.   </div> <bR> <div> Kathy has received three <B>ASCAP </B><B>American Popular Music Award</B><B>s</B> (<B>2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006 </B>.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Performances of Kathy King Wouk songs:</U></div> <div> <I><B>Woman Exposed: Musical Photographs of Love and Desire</B></I><I> </I>performed at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre, seven performances, March-April 2005. <B>  </B>Performers: Lisa Asher, Allison Briner, Barbara Brussell.</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Views from the Soul of a Woman: An Exhibition of Musical Photographs</B></I> performed at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre, three performances,  February  2004.  Performers: Lisa Asher, Ronit Hanan, Donna Coney Island, Julie Reyburn.</div> <div> <B>MAC/ASCAP</B> <B>Songwriter Showcases (1994-2004):</B>  <I>Angel In Disguise, In The Middle of My Life, In The Reckless Moments Of Love, My Mother Played the Piano, My Twenty-first Century Dream, On Christmas, When Love Speaks To You, You Left Too Soon. </I></div> <div> <B>Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room:  </B>Karen Akers performed Wouk's songs, <I>When Love Speaks To You</I> and <I>You Left Too Soon </I>in her 2002 shows (April 30 - May 25). <B> </B><I>When Love Speaks To You</I> was the title of Ms. Akers' show.  </div> <div> [Reviews:  </div> <div> "The title tune of her act <I>(When Love Speaks To You)</I> is the work of Kathy King Wouk, a stunning song that is one of several high points in this thrilling act<I>.</I>"<I>  </I>… Barbara and Scott Siegel, <I>Theater Mania.com</I>.  </div> <div> "The new program is nicely balanced, with hardy reliable standards and a few trenchant surprises, like <I>(Spring Came Too Late and) You Left Too Soon</I>, by Kathy King Wouk. Ouch!"…Robert L. Daniels, <I>Variety.com</I>. <I> </I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Book Antiqua" ><I>  </I></FONT></div> <div> <B>The Duplex Cabaret Theatre, New Mondays Songwriter's Series:</B>  <I>Keeper of Love, When Love Speaks To You, The Twilight Years </I>and<I> In The Middle Of My Life </I>performed by<I> </I>Ms. Wouk. (March 17, 2003)</div> <div> <B>New York Sheet Music Society's New Songwriter Series: </B><I>You Left Too Soon </I>and<I> In The Middle Of My Life</I> performed by cabaret singer, Lisa Asher. (May 10, 2003)  </div> <div> <B>Kean University:</B><I>  Chabannes</I> (the story of the rescue of 400 Jewish refugee children in a tiny village in France during the Holocaust<B> </B>performed at the Annual Jewish Studies Lecture/Artist Series). March 13, 2002</div> <div> <B>Eighty Eights: </B> <I>On Christmas</I> performed by Tom Andersen (1998). </div> <div> <I>In The Middle of My Life</I> performed by Lois Kittner (1994). </div> <div> <B>Monticello, New York Community Concert: </B><I>The Twilight Years</I>. (1997) </div> <div> <B>Town Hall: Mabel Mercer Foundation's Summer Cabaret Convention: </B><I> In The Middle Of My Life</I><B> </B>performed by Lois Kittner. (July 1995)  </div> <div> <B>Amnesty International's</B> <I><B>Conspiracy of Hope</B></I><B> rock concert tour:  </B><I>Corragio</I> performed at the kickoff party in San Francisco. (1986)  </div> <div> <B>Amnesty International:  </B>Performed her songs in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, and at a concert for Amnesty International in Saddle River, New Jersey, with members of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.  (1986)</div> <div> <B>"Bound for Glory":</B>  Featured in the Woody Guthrie benefit concert, in Brookline, Massachusetts. (1973) </div> <div> <B>Berlin (East Germany): </B> Performed at a church concert. (1972)</div> <bR> <div> <B>Guitar and voice training:  </B></div> <div> Folk guitar: Happy Traum. Voice instruction: Ruth Post, François Clemens, Charles Kellis, Kurt Peterson, Jeanette LoVetri. Musical arranging: Jeff Franzel. </div> <bR> <div> <B>French adaptations of Wouk songs:</B></div> <div> Two songs adapted to French by French lyricist/composer, Jean Dréjac: <I>Chabannes</I>  (<I>Merci Chabannes) </I>and <I>When Love Speaks To You (Quand l'amour nous parle).</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>Debut CD:  </B><I><B>Musical Interiors: The Songs of Kathy King Wou</B></I><I>k</I> (released in 1999).  Covers a wide range of writing styles, including cabaret, musical theater, art song, pop and country and western. </div> <div> "Although classified as adult contemporary, one hears those elements that made the folk craze of the 1960's a defining moment in American popular music….  Her play list of originals cover a wide variety of topics, some sad, some dreamy, some hopeful, but all sincere…<I>The Twilight Years</I> is an account of Wouk's mother's battle with memory loss. <I>Lover's Lullaby</I> tells of the plight and despair of a woman whose husband was tortured in an Argentine prison, while <I>Prisoners of Conscience</I> testifies about those inhuman acts, physical and psychological, that are typically engaged in by repressive governments. <I>My Twenty-first Century Dream</I> envisions the use of great advances in technology, those already achieved and those to come, to make the world a better place…. Wouk's songs have found favor among other members of the cabaret clan and are well represented on this album…."  Dave Nathan, AMG (All Music Guide)</div> <bR> <div> <B>Radio broadcasts of Wouk's songs:</B></div> <div> <I>Angel In Disguise</I>, theme music for NPR Nationally Syndicated radio show, "Living Without Limits."  </div> <div> <I>The Twilight Years</I> aired on NPR's, "Living Without Limits" (1997)</div> <div> <I>My Twenty-first Century</I> <I>Dream</I> aired on "Everything Old Is New Again."  (WBAI) (2000)</div> <div> <B>Organization affiliations:</B></div> <div> ASCAP</div> <div> MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs)</div> <div> Songwriter's Guild</div> <div> National Academy of Popular Music </div> <div> Women in Music (WIM)</div> <bR> <div> Kathy lives in New Jersey with her husband.  Their son is a Ph.D. candidate in History of Art in Cambridge, Massachusetts. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> Updated 1/20/2009</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>