Katherine Teck

Katherine Weintz Teck (born December 31, 1939) is an American author, composer, and founding member of the International Guild of Musicians in Dance.

[1][2][3] Teck was born in Mineola, New York, to Helen Elliot Bennett and Walter Henry Weintz.

[6] She also studied at the Mannes College of Music and with Harry Berv and Greg Squires.

[2] Teck has held a number of arts management jobs, freelanced as a French horn player, and worked as a studio musician for ballet and creative dance.

A founding member of the International Guild of Musicians in Dance, she was given the organization's Louis Horst Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.