Helen-Ursula Katz is one of very few musicians whose virtuosity is considered to be equally impressive on both the modern piano and the Baroque harpsichord. She is known here and abroad as a stylistically accomplished interpreter, and her career, which has spanned over four decades, is as all-embracing as it is unique. Her seven years of learning and teaching at the Vermont summer music school, Kinhaven, formed a broad base for the extraordinary career to follow. A Juilliard winner of the Eduard M. Steuermann Memorial Prize for Excellence and Achievement in a variety of musical fields, Helen was also a bassoonist. In addition, the Fulbright Grant she won was the first to be awarded to an American for outstanding recorder playing. As a chamber musician, she has performed in the United States and in England, the Netherlands, and Belgium with many of the greatest artists and ensembles of our time. As founding President and CEO of "Concerts at Southbridge" in New York City, she was funded in its second year by the New York State Council on the Arts after all of the first season's concerts sold out. She has appeared with countless orchestras, frequently under the batons of legendary conductors. She's also produced contemporary scores for television and documentary films (one of which was nominated for an Academy Award) and is a writer of jazz, R&B, and cabaret songs. While she completed her Masters and Doctoral work at Juilliard, her Fellowship consisted in teaching ear-training, sight-reading, and orchestral score-reading to competition-winning pianists, harpsichordists, and organists. Upon receipt of her advanced degrees, she became a full faculty member. In the Humanities Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Katz was chosen to lecture in music appreciation to both undergraduate and graduate students, structuring her course to emphasize and explain the nature of creative genius. During one of the many summers in which she was featured at the Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado, both as teacher and performer, she was invited to be a participant by the Aspen Institute Executive Seminar Program as a voice for the artist in contemporary society. Originally beginning many years ago as an avocational pasttime—becoming well-informed about matters metaphysical, and the "consciousness movement" in the United States, specifically—Dr. Katz created another way of extending into the world artistically. By combining the master-teaching methods which have been used for centuries in European music conservatories with the parapsychlogical disciplines which, in the last hundred or so years,have affected and transformed mainstream medical communities to include intuitive healing arts along with traditional allopathic methods, she counsels people to take the next personal or professional steps on their paths. Recently, her practice has expanded to include those who have suffered traumatic illness or injury; she has written extensively about the numerous ways in which mind and body, emotion, soul and spirit all may be better understood to maximize the potential inherent in phases of creative inner growth and expression.