About Band Director Kevin Cato

Kevin T. Cato has a BA in Music, a Minor in Dance from California State University Hayward and a MFA in Dance and Choreography from Mills College in May 2003. He has been teaching and choreographing dance and colorguard since 1992. Kevin has performed and been featured with various music and dance ensembles, including Living Space, and has accompanied dance performances in the Bay Area.

He has performed in works by Kathleen Wagner, Ann Westwick, Kathleen McClintock, Laura Ellis, Laura Wilson, Mary Cochran, Ruth Botchan, and Capacitor. He was the accompanist and rehearsal assistant to Mary Cochran at the Jofferey Midwest Workshop in 2001. On May 1, 2004 he premiered a new composition in Nina Hafts’ project, Mountain Views, called Paradox 7, and participated as a performer as well. He is a current member of the Ruth Botchan Dance Company.

Kevin serves as the Artistic Director for Dreamscape Arts, which is a performing arts group that educates youths and adults in dance and music. He is an accomplished composer, singer/song writer, musician, choreographer, costume designer, sound engineer, and teacher. He has taught at various schools throughout the Bay Area since 1992 in music and dance and serves as the current band director at Mt. Eden High School, where he was a two-time honoree of Who's Who Among America"s Educators.