Katherine Hickey is an experienced music educator specializing in early childhood and elementary music education, children’s choral music, Kodály pedagogy and musicianship training. Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in piano performance were completed at California State Universities at Los Angeles and Long Beach, and included a year of intense music study at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary, 1970-71. She earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Music Education from the University of Southern California with honors as Outstanding Music Education Graduate.

At the University of Redlands School of Music, Dr. Hickey is developing a sight-singing, ear training curriculum based on the movable do Hungarian solfege model. Dr. Hickey was recently elected President of the national Organization of American Kodály Educators.

A frequent presenter at local, state and national conferences, her presentations include sessions and seminars on nurturing the young singer, vocal development and repertoire for the young singer, vocal abuse, singing games to musical literacy, art music listening in the classroom, brain research and music, and Kodály certification courses.