Kate Sara Chittenden

Career

• 17 April 1861 — began piano lessons with an aunt
• 1865-1870 — studied piano with Jules Fossier
• 1870-1876 — studied piano with Lucy H. Clinton, pupil of Clara Schumann at Hellmuth Ladies' College, London, Ontario
• 1873 — awarded Lord Dufferin Bronze Medal for Art
• 5 January 1874 — began teaching piano, Hellmuth Ladies' College
• September 1876 — arrived in New York, became a protégé of Miss Lucy Nelson
• 1878 — met Antonia Henne, contralto, "The most dominating musical influence of my life"
• 1879-1906 — organist and choir director, Calvary Baptist Church in New York City
• 1882-1883 — organist and accompanist at Music Conventions (Summer Normal Schools held at Meadville, Pennsylvania
• studied with Albert Ross Parsons
• 1883 — became a life member of the Music Teachers National Association
• 1887-1888 — began preparation of Synthetic Piano Method
• 1890-1914 — head of piano department, Catherine Aiken School, Stamford, Connecticut
• 1892 — joined the faculty of the Metropolitan College of Music
• 1892-1919 — lecturer, assisted by C. Judson Bushnell, baritone, on the New York Board of Education free lecture courses for adults... first lecturer on music, and first woman lecturer, on these courses
• 1889 — founder and director of music department in Hartley House Settlement, later incorporated as Hartley House Music School
• 1899-1930 — head of Music Department at Vassar College
• 1899-1903 — head of Piano Department, Putnam Hall School, Poughkeepsie, New York
• 1900-1932 — Dean and head of Piano Department, of the American Institute of Applied Music, New York, NY, organized as a successor to the Metropolitan College of Music
• 1906 — invited to become a founder of the American Guild of Organists and a charter member of the MacDowell Club
• 1930 — Professor Emeritus, Vassar College
• 1930-1936 — Honorary Director, Hartley House School of Music, lecturer and private teacher

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