Bio for Kathy Slick

Kathy Slick has been passionately pursuing the piano since the young age of 4, when she would come home from Sunday School and try to pick out songs by ear, begging for lessons from her mother.  Later, her idea of fun was to sit at the piano for hours and play through the entire hymnal.  In high school once each year, she and her twin sister switched identities and went through the school day pretending to be the other.  Karen played clarinet, and Kathy played violin, so Karen had the more difficult time pretending to know how to position and play the violin.  Since the age of 11, she has followed in her mother's footsteps as a piano teacher, church organist (when her feet would not even reach the pedals),  and as an accompanist for churches, schools, and musicals.  Kathy earned many awards in high school, including the Frederic Chopin Piano Award, and studied piano and organ at Ball State University, graduating with a BA in Organ Performance.  She has been married for 33 years to Kent, has 6 children and 2 grandchildren, currently teaches private piano lessons, and accompanies at Colleyville Middle School and Arlington Presbyterian Church.