She has performed for over 30 years with literally hundreds of musicians, some of the more well known include Russell Ferrante, Tom Brechtlein, Marc Johnson, Gary Willis, Ted Greene, Jeff Richman, Mike Miller, Bob Sheppard, Peter Erskine, Kei Akagi, Joey Barron, Mike Lang, Diana Krall, John Robinson, David Benoit, Billy Childs, Joey Heredia, Sam Most, Carl Schroeder, Bill Berry, Don Menza, Dave Mackay, John Pisano...the list goes on. She has sung in styles that range from bebop to modern jazz.
In demand internationally and nationally for clinics, private teaching, compositions, live performances and studio recording, Cathy has traveled Australia, Argentina, throughout Europe, and Japan.
Cathy created The Vocal Workshop Network in 1997, hosting various clinicians, including herself, every month, sometimes several a month. These workshops cover performance, technique, preparation, studio work, jazz, blues, Brazilian, music business, internet.. anything that a singer would be interested in, and many times other musicians and non-musicians are in attendance as well. (See the Teaching page for more information.)
See my 5x5 poster at the Burbank Airport in the month of November! It
sits right over the baggage claim belt on the south side in the United
area!
People, you can read my BLOG by going to: www.lajazz.com and looking
me up!
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As a composer, Ms. Segal-Garcia's "IF IT COULD BE", is featured on the website of fine artist Diane Leonard www.dianeleonard.com On Diane's home page, click on "View a recent model session" to see her model session and hear Cathy singing this song! "IF IT COULD BE" is also featured on Michele Weir's website, www.michmusic.com , in her on-line store, where Michele arranged this song for four voices, a capella! Click on this link to listen to "The California All State Choir" singing Michele's arrangement! Cathy has a performance of her composition, "The Song", on a compilation for Artists For A Better World, on their CD entitled Africa. Go to www.artistsforabetterworld.com and go to What's New... You will see "AFABW Africa CD released!" Go there to see more information about this good cause! As a composer/performer, Cathy is listed with Jazz Planet (www.jazzplanet.net) which is not a conventional music library, it is a growing database of great jazz performances and original compositions, organized specifically for licensing to media production companies. Cathy composed and sang the radio theme song for the show, "the Hott Jazzy Jazz Show... Brenda Lee, the Sultry Soul Sister" on the Los Angeles station www.klasfm.com This show has jazz guests every week, on Saturday afternoons.
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Cathy has created a show called "The Singers' Roundtable", which highlights several singers, sitting in the round, being interviewed by the host and answering questions from the audience. Of course, there's singing too!
Cathy
is a co-founder of a newly forming organization called the
