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Gaining a stellar reputation for her inspiring master classes, clinics, adjudicating, and workshops, Kitty has been a guest lecturer in the Jazz Studies Programs of many of the nation's top universities and high schools, including:

Stanford Jazz Workshop, Stanford University
Lamont College of Music
Universit of Denver, Denver CO
University of Colorado, Boulder CO
University of Northern Colorado, Greely CO
Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham OR
University of Arizona, Tuscon AZ
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo CA
Reno International Jazz Festival, University of Reno, NE
The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, University of Idaho, Moscow ID
McPhail Center for the Arts, Minneapolis MN
Janice Borla Vocal Jazz Camp, Chicago IL
Jazz Camp West, La Honda CA
Brigham Young University, Provo UT
University of Washington, Seattle WA
Sitka High School, Sitka Alaska
Everett Center for the Performing Arts, Everett WA
De Anza College, Cupertino CA
University of North Texas, Denton TX
University of Nevada, Las Vegas NE
San Francisco State University, SF CA
University of Nevada, Reno NE
Delta College, Stockton CA
Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa CA
Jazz on a Sunday Clinic, London, England
University of Milan, Italy
Madeline Eastman's Voice Shop
Centro Didattico produzione Musica (CDpM), Bergamo, Italy
University of Arkansas
University of Western Australia
Monterey Jazz Festival Competitions

Clinics and Workshops I Private Teaching

"Budding singers, take heed. Here's a chance to get some schooling from one of our local vocal treasures, Kitty Margolis, who's been flooring audiences on both coasts with her buoyant, eclectic approach to American song - and man, can she scat!"
-San Francisco Chronicle

Kitty's Teaching
Kitty Margolis is deeply committed to jazz education, never taking for granted her good luck in learning the jazz tradition the old fashioned way, straight from the masters. Gaining a stellar reputation for her inspiring master classes, clinics, adjudicating, and workshops, Margolis has been a guest lecturer in the Jazz Studies Programs of many of the nation's top universities and high schools as she travels the globe.

In 2001 Margolis accepted an appointment by the The International Association of Jazz Education (I.A.J.E.) to chair the I.A.J.E. Jazz Vocal Resource Team. In 2002 she joined the faculty at the Jazzschool in Berkeley, CA. Please check the Jazzschool website to see what goodies Kitty is offering students this semester. Catherine Wazenski, a participant in Kitty's "Demystifying Jazz Singing" class raves, "I have to be honest, this jazz course has to go down as one of the best courses I've ever taken... in my life! As profound as some of my best theology courses!

Margolis' arrangements and scat solos have been studied, transcribed, and recorded by numerous college jazz vocal ensembles. Several of her students have gone on to develop successful recording careers of their own.

Learn Kitty's Scat Solo on "Summertime"
from her "Heart & Soul" CD!
Listen to the solo:
1mb MP3
View a transcription:
Adobe PDF file

Above:
Kitty with the members of her
Jazzcamp West 2007 Vocal Intensive Masterclass

Learn Kitty's Scat Solo on "Anthropology" from her
"Evolution" CD!
Listen to the solo:
1mb MP3
View a transcription:
Adobe PDF file

Left:
Kitty gives her
"Demystifying Scat" masterclass
at Jazz Camp West with pianist
Fred Harris