TECK, Katherine

Katherine Weintz Teck (b. 1939) is an American composer, French horn player, author, and specialist in music for dance. Born in Mineola, New York, she earned an A.B. in music from Vassar College and an M.A. in composition from Columbia University, where she was a Seidl Fellow, and also studied at Mannes College of Music. Teck has worked as a freelance horn player and studio musician for ballet and creative dance and has taught music in college dance departments. A founding member of the International Guild of Musicians in Dance, she has written extensively on the relationship between music and theatrical dance and received the Guild’s Louis Horst Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.