Kay Werth

Phone: (785) 628-5360
Email: kwerth@fhsu.edu

Kay Werth received her first musical training from her father, retired band director Benny Schulte. She earned degrees in Piano Performance, Music Education and Woodwind Pedagogy (with concentrated studies in oboe and bassoon) from Marymount College and the University of Ohio. Upon graduation Kay took a positions as a Woodwind Specialist/Band Director in the public school system in Ulysses, KS, then moving on to Concordia, KS in 1988. She has been emplosyed as a piano, flute, double reed instructor at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina Since 1999 and at Fort Hays State University since 2001.

For 21 years, Kay held the post of principal oboe with the Salina Symphony under the direction of Eric Stein. She has performaned or recorded with artists including Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Collin Raye, Barry Manilow and Mel Torme through performances with the Charleston Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony or the Wichita Grand Opera. Additional engagements with the Werth Family Trio and the Heartland Prairie Winds keeps Kay’s schedule complete on most weekends.