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Teaching
To the right is a portfolio of my student teaching experience at East Brunswick High School in Fall 2025. It compiles multiple artifacts that support my alignment with New Jersey Professional Standards for Teachers (InTASC).
Teaching videos available to prospective employers upon request.
During my student teaching, I taught and rehearsed all music for every curricular choir at EBHS. To the left is a video from the Winter Concert, when I was invited back to conduct the piece I taught the most, Hallelujah (arr. Roger Emerson).
Conducting
During Westminster Choir College’s Celebration of Black Music, I participated in a conducting masterclass with Dr. Felicia Barber, Associate Professor of Conducting from Yale University. To the left is an audio recording of me conducting “Blow the Trumpet” from Rosephanye Powell’s Quiet Revolutionary. Below are additional photos from the masterclass (March 4, 2025).
In completion of the Baccalaureate Honors Program, I presented on Vivaldi’s Gloria (RV 589) at the Westminster Choir College Music Ed. Hall of Fame Awards. At the conclusion of the presentation, I conducted the first movement “Gloria” (May 5, 2025).
Voice
Mantón de Manila: The Senior Voice Recital of Kevin Catalon
From the Program Notes: “The Mantón de Manila is a fringed shawl adorned with elegant embroidery. Thanks to trade routes in Manila, this garment connected China, the Philippines, Mexico, and Spain. In a similar fashion, my identity as a musician and person has been influenced by a tapestry of cultures.”
“Der Neugierige” from Die schöne Müllerin by Franz Schubert.
Performance Class (November 4, 2024)
Piano
A performance of Chopin Op. 7 no. 2, Mazurka in A Minor (December 10, 2025).
Writing
Most recently, I became a published author in Nota Bene: Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology, a peer-reviewed journal based in Canada that publishes high quality undergraduate musicology writing from around the world. My article “Wiyawi Ebi”: A Study of Kalinga Vocal Music from the Philippines explores the traditional vocal music of the Indigenous Kalinga people.
In completion of the four-year Baccalaureate Honors Program, I wrote a capstone thesis titled Achieving Musical Identity: The Dialectics of Taste in the Music Classroom. It examines the formation of musical identity through the lens of philosophy, sociology, and music education. My findings heavily inform my teaching philosophy and also culminate into an adaptable framework for a lesson plan incorporating diverse music, student-centered learning, and active discussion.
© 2025 Kevin Catalon