Educating

Pine Productions has been providing professional, private music education,
since 1976, specializing in composition instruction in all styles.

Katya provides music and composition lessons my child loves to attend. She encourages his creativity to shine. E. Bergman

Instructional Approach

Katya’s approach to musical education is an holistic one that not only embraces the requirements of the Royal Conservatory of Music (RCM), but includes all styles of music and the understanding of those styles. This enhances her students’ experiences by expanding their appreciation to include both traditional (RCM) and their own musical interests e.g. popular, jazz, improvisational, songwriting and composing.

Katya strives to create an environment where learning is so much fun that students are ultimately unaware that they are being taught. Through the use of Logic and Sibelius software, students are encouraged to compose and create.

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Choral Composition	Commissioned by Ensemble ArtChoral. Choral composition for a poem from “Dialect of Distant Harbors” by Dipika Mukherjee. To be performed and recorded during summer 2023. Funded by Canada Council for the Arts. Ensemble ArtChoral
Podcast Series	Ongoing discussions with author and trauma-relief therapist Marcia Jacobs to collaborate for the creation of a new podcast series based on her blog about rape culture and women's experiences witnessed first hand during the war in Bosnia and Sarajevo.

Live Horseracing	Theme music, CTV’s SportsNet, Calgary Alberta
A Home Away from Home	Three part television documentary by Black Media Works Inc.
Waiting	Film by Knottingham Productions
The Girl Who Married a Ghost	Screen play, Blue Moon Productions
Toronto Haunts & The Bettee Show	Television pilots by In Darker Productions (Co-composed with Sean Bray)
Tradition with a Twist	Television pilot, BluePine Productions
Puppet	Short indie animation film by Raf Anzovin and Dave Boutilier
The Forerunner	SciFi indie film, written and directed by Max Train
The Moving Child I & II	Films by Hana Kamea Kemble

Canadian National Conservatory of Music’s (CNCM) publication series “Northern Lights”, (2007 - 2009)
	“Around Again”, Level 1 Repertoire “Zeke’s Video Game Adventure” Level 1 Repertoire “Cool Cat Waltz”, Level 4 Repertoire & RCM new piano series “Jazz at the Bistro”, Level 5 Repertoire, Grade 7 2015 RCM Syllabus
Canadian National Conservatory of Music’s publication series “Making Tracks”, (2006 - 2008)
	"The Trains at Palmerston”, Advanced piano solo and level 10 RCM substitution list “Ghost Town”, Intermediate piano solo
	These Pedagogical piano solos are compiled in the music book, “Images”

A Ring of Rhymes	Commissioned Cantata for soprano, tenor, small chamber ensemble and optional equal-voiced choir, funded by the Ontario Arts Council.
The Garden Going on Without Us	Song cycle for mezzo soprano and piano, set to the poetry of well-known Canadian poet and 2011 Order of Canada recipient, Lorna Crozier. Two songs from this collection are listed in the RCM vocal syllabus for advanced study.
Wild Birds	Song cycle for mezzo soprano, piano and alto flute, text by Lorna Crozier.
A Piece of Alligator Pie	Song cycle for soprano and piano, composed to words by the popular Canadian children’s poet, Dennis Lee. Two songs from this collection are listed in the RCM vocal syllabus.
A Salutation to Life	Song cycle for soprano, piano, sitar and tamboura.
	“A Piece of Alligator Pie” and “A Salutation to Life” were performed by Katya with Esther Ewing, soprano, on CBC’s “Music Toronto”, in a broadcast dedicated to Katya’s music. Hosted by Barbara Smith.
Uma	Music for the opera/musical “Uma”, co-composed with Kate Major and librettist Virginia Nemetz.
Wood Sleeves	Commissioned by Vancouver's Erato Ensemble to create an arrangement of this art song. Performed by the Ensemble, February 2019. www.EratoEnsemble.com The text of this work written by and dedicated to the late poet Mary Aitken.

Pine Productions has been providing professional, private music education,
since 1976, specializing in composition instruction in all styles.

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Educating

Pine Productions has been providing professional, private music education, since 1976, specializing in composition instruction in all styles.

Instructional Approach

Pine Productions has been providing professional, private music education,
since 1976, specializing in composition instruction in all styles.