Katherine Lundeen, Alto Katherine Lundeen says, “I always knew that music was something I couldn't do without.” Growing up in Colorado with musical parents, she remembers listening to Messiah sung by the church choir and thinking, “that's what I want to do.” Although majoring in the sciences in college, she was studying piano when her teacher heard her sing and immediately took her to a vocal professor. And so Katie became “vi-vocational.” While she was winning international vocal competitions, she was publishing scientific papers in prestigious journals. “I'm able to sing enough to satisfy my soul and at the same time have a career that satisfies the analytical side of my brain,” she says. She is the alto section leader and soloist with the Village Presbyterian Church in Rancho Santa Fe, the director of four children's choirs and co-president of the San Diego Chapter of the Choristers Guild, which extends musical opportunities to kids in San Diego County .