Kassy Krause holds degrees in Music Education and Vocal Performance from Illinois State University. In 2008 she had the opportunity to live in Florence, Italy while studying Italian Opera and the Italian language. In the summer and fall of 2019, Kassy made the time to begin performing again and most notably was seen on the stage at the iconic Chicago Symphony Center, and performed Bernstein’s Mass with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia, which can be seen and heard on the PBS series Great Performances, released in 2020.
In her thirteenth year as a music educator, Krause is an active member of the Illinois Music Educators Association and has served as the Repertoire & Standards Chair for Show Choir on the American Choral Directors Association board where she led the Illinois All-State Show Choir. Kassy was awarded the 2014 Fame Aspire Award for Best New Director and the same year her show choir, Flight, won Most Promising New Program. Her concert choirs have been invited to perform all over the world and most recently presented concerts in Beijing, Shanghai, Paris, Barcelona, and Rome. She maintains an active schedule of adjudicating and workshopping show choirs nationwide, has vocal directed all state show choirs in Alabama and Indiana and is honored to serve as a Vocal Clinician at Showchoir Camps of America for the last 10 years.
Kassy is in her 11th year as the Director of Vocal Music at Wheaton North High School in the Chicago suburbs where she conducts five curricular concert choirs and directs the award-winning extra-curricular show choir, Flight.
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Kassy Krause