Sponsors

"Your wonderful residency profoundly affected the way our children hear and think about music, opening up their minds to the limitless possibilities around them. Your beautiful voice, your refreshing compositions, and the children's imaginative music-making were a joy to hear. Your work speaks eloquently and convincingly for the value of exploring the creativity that resides within us all. Our community is very grateful for you. "
--Phillip Bimstein, Director, New Music Utah Festival and Mayor, Springdale, Utah

"Talent, discipline, commitment and a distinct personal radiance combine to make Julie an ideal colleague for adults and a magical presence for young people. Her work is luminous-at once complex and childlike, challenging and engaging."
--Greg McCaslin, Education Director, Center for Arts Education, NYC

"Julie is able to work collaboratively with classroom teachers as well as arts specialists at all grade levels to develop lessons that specifically meet the needs of their students."
--Arlene Sampson, CASDA, Capital Area School Development Association

"Ms. Kabat's expertise as performance artist and mentor far exceeded our highest expectations. She has a wonderful way with both students and teachers, gently easing even the most reluctant into a personal pursuit of excellence and creativity. She willingly and comfortably shares her won brilliance and creative process with those less "endowed"; thus, radiating her love of life and inquiry. I recommend Ms. Julie Kabat without reservation as both performance artist and arts mentor with students of all ages."
--Sue Lesser, Arts in Education/Gifted Coordinator, Arlington School District Internet-shop after 2900 руб - website flash templates. How to untwist Site and Begin to work.

"The Challenge program at the Parker School, in Pittstown, NY, designed for students with emotional disabilities, is in need of programming that assists in the development of the students' self-esteem and social and critical thinking skills. The residency program in music and creative writing that you developed with the planning team met all these needs. Seeing the students participate on their own level was truly an inspiration. All students engaged in the program in their own way. The result was an astounding team effort. The students were truly proud of the music, poetry and computer presentation that were developed over the course of the residency."
--Tracy Racicot, Arts in Education Specialist, Questar III (Rensselaer-Columbia-Greene BOCES) Searched the entire Internet and found none. Maybe it's narrative essay and mathematics papers.

"In the summer of 2000, Ms. Kabat served as a Presenter at our Summer Arts Retreat for elementary teachers. A presenter must not only be a skilled musician but also have every manner of organizational skills imaginable. I am pleased to note that Ms. Kabat possesses all of these qualities. Her style combines a wonderful blend of head and heart.
I recommend Julie Kabat highly as a music teacher, performer, or presenter. Any organization able to secure her talents is fortunate indeed."
-- Stephen Richins, Music Consultant, Utah State Office of Education

"I had the opportunity to present Ms. Kabat for a one week residency in New Orleans. While here, she performed two concerts, one workshop with professional singers, and one with children. I found her work to be of the highest caliber and her professionalism without question…I would recommend her to all interested in presenting new music."
--Jay Weigel, Music Coordinator, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

"Your workshop on Early Childhood Styles contributed significantly to our overwhelming success. I hope that you will return in the near future to present for the Choral Music Initiative."
--Craig Combs, Program Officer, New York Foundation for the Arts

Teachers

"As an English teacher, I found approaching poetry through music to be an excellent way to involve students actively with poetry. They had a real, personal investment, an authentic rather than simply a teacher-imposed reason, for working to arrive at a clear understanding of both the ideas and the mechanics of poems."
--Gwen Schwarz, English Teacher, Tamarack High School

"What do teachers gain from Julie? Techniques to incorporate sound and conduct children with musical instruments--and the joy of having children experience music and poetry."
--Mary Beth King, 2nd Grade Teacher, Jefferson Elementary School

"Julie adds an inner peace to her teaching that the children acquire just by being exposed to her creativity and talent. Julie makes me realize that children are a wonder. She brings out the best in all that are involved with her. She brings children alive with their multiple talents. Inner city children need to experience what she has to offer!"
--- Ellen Naughter, 4th Grade Teacher, Arbor Hill School, Albany, NY

"Julie is inspiring. She motivates the students to express themselves and shows them how to harness their creative power. She is able to quickly assess and draw out each student's ability and to blend these various ability levels into a finished product that is very musical and poetically moving."
--Andrea Baran, Music Teacher, Woodlawn Elementary School, Schenectady, NY

"This residency builds a real sensitivity to sound-what tempos and dynamics are appropriate. Students must listen and work together to create the ensemble. In creating sound compositions, students must verbalize in music terms what is needed. Both of these experiences are wonderful for musical growth!"
--Sue Loiacono, Music Teacher, Yates Elementary School, Schenectady, NY

"Students learned how to work cooperatively, how to express themselves through art and music, and the social studies content. The project helped prepare them for the state social studies test with in depth content of the Revolutionary War. . The musical accompaniment made them think more of the feeling and mood in the story. They really enjoyed it, and I feel learned a lot about social studies and people's feelings and how similar we all are."
--Kristen Basmajian, Gardner-Dickenson Union Free School, Wynantskill, NY

"Students learned to search within themselves and the poetry they wrote amazed them. They also saw that music and language go hand in hand. I liked the way all the children got to create and 'sing their thoughts' and share them with the class."
--Georgie Murray, Howe International Magnet School, Schenectady, NY

"Loved it! Loved it! Loved it! The children loved it! I loved it! The parents, principal, and other teachers and paraprofessionals in the building just loved and marveled at the children's performance. I learned so much watching all my children go through all these processes. They amazed me! Julie has shown me another side of my students and has expanded my view of what I can do with them. Bravo!"
--Gwen De Long, 4th-5th Grade, Woodlawn School, Schenectady, NY

Administrators

"Ms. Kabat demonstrated exceptional ability in helping the students be creative both in poetry and music by using their cultural traditions and experiences. In addition, she helped them interpret their surroundings by using nature as a theme and by taking some of the experiences into the outdoors.
She showed she could, through her work, earn the trust and respect of students, staff and community. She has an exceptional ability to work with multicultural students and be sensitive to their beliefs. I feel she is an outstanding artist and can strongly recommend her."
--H.C. Black, Principal, Navajo Mountain Boarding School

"Julie has so much to offer that our public schools just aren't able to provide. Teachers enjoyed the after school workshops and were able to incorporate Julie's strategies into their current curriculum. Parents were moved to tears and laughter with the children's final performance with Julie."
--Jeanne Shultz, Principal, Berlin Elementary School, Berlin, NY

Students

"I thought the Poetry Workshop was a great idea. It got us used to working together as a team in order to succeed. It also showed us how you can read to get the point of the poem across even better. I thought putting the music into the poem without destroying your reading was the hardest part. However, with the music the poem seems much more alive and people tend to listen better.
--11th Grader

"You got to use your mind for your own thoughts."
--11th Grader

"I felt I was inside the poems while I was writing them."
--5th Grader

"When you do poetry, it comes from down inside you"
--4th Grader

"I learned that poems make music."
-5th Grader

"I learned how to sing high and low notes and how to play different instruments. They are very fun to play too. Oh, and you taught me how to make great poems and songs. It's fun to make poems, and the day you taught me how to make them, I went home and made a lot more, and gave some to my Mom and Dad, and they said they loved them, and I told them you taught them to me."
-- 5th Grader

Music Critics

"The performance was an adventure for the ear, the eye and the intellect… Kabat's beautifully modulated voice proved capable of the widest range of dynamics and tone production…and each piece, with its own imaginative ingredients, held the audience spellbound."
-- Angela M. Owen, Music Critic, Times Tribune, Palo Alto, CA

"Avant-Garde: Julie Kabat Plays Her Work for Goblets and Saw
If you think the idea of composing a work for drinking glasses and soprano is too nutty for words, or that a saw-yes, a saw-could not possibly combine sensibly with a virtuoso vocalize, then you surely have not heard Julie Kabat's works and performances. She is a composer and soprano who seems to be a genuine original.
Accompanying herself on this instrument (glass harmonica), Miss Kabat sang her setting of Wallace Stevens's, 'The Idea of Order at Key West.' Sung and played with directness and simplicity, the work was almost mesmerizing.
'Tapestry,' an incredible vocalize accompanied alternately by taps on a water jar and by lyrical playing on the saw, was a tour de force that was at once amusing, awe-inspiring, and indicative of the range of Miss Kabat's imagination."
--Allen Hughes, Music Critic, New York Times

"Ethereal. Dreamlike. Magical.
…Add that most important musical term, beautiful, and you have it. Ms. Kabat seemed a magician as well as musician…In sum, the listener was left wishing for more of this intriguing music from a performance artist who relishes everything she does and communicates this sense of joy."
--Francis Church, Music Critic, Richmond News Leader, Richmond, VA

"…Kabat's 'Child and the Moon-Tree' is an ambitious blend of exotic music, poetry, Noh theater, mime, and dance….Ms. Kabat's stylized dance and accompanying music put it over effectively."
--Allan Kozinn, New York Times

"Her concert was pure magic…I strongly recommend a JULIE KABAT concert and will never forget her La Jolla debut."
--Bertram Turetsky, Composer, Department of Music, University of California at San Diego

"The music played by Ms. Kabat is unique and enjoyable, and her attitude to create music from everyday household objects is inspiring. The pure and 'ethereal' sound of glass harmonica fascinated our audience."
--Lorraine Toly, director, American Center, Nagoya, Japan