Karin McCullough, Nationally Certified Teacher of Music in Piano, took the less-traveled road to a career in music. A serious pianist while growing up in Illinois, she reluctantly suppressed her aspirations to become a paralegal. One day she was asked to accompany opera singers at a Fremont Bistro—a weekly, Friday-night engagement that would last for five years. By then her growing popularity as an accompanist, solo performer, and piano teacher allowed her to trade her life as a paralegal for that of a full time musician. Karin is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music in Piano. Karin maintains a flourishing piano studio in her North Ballard home and performs frequently in the Seattle area. She is a performing member of the Ladies' Musical Club of Seattle (LMC), an active volunteer and member of Seattle Music Teachers Association (SMTA), Principal Organizer for Bach in the Subways Seattle - the local chapter of Bach in the Subways, and has served on the Boards of Directors of Seattle Music Teachers Association (SMTA) and Musical Experiences, a nonprofit classical music education organization and as Program Director for Haller Lake Music Series. Karin is also the regular church pianist for Third Church of Christ, Scientist. Some years ago, when Karin traded her home for one in the South of France, she met the daughter of Alfred Tokayer, one of les voix étouffées (stifled voices), Jewish composers killed during the Holocaust. Along with various vocalists of Ladies Musical Club (mezzo soprano Catherine Treadgold, sopranos Katie Hochman and Malya Muth), baritone Robert Tangney, and Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra violinist Adrianna Hulscher, Karin has performed the United States premiere of nearly all of Tokayer's songs as well as his violin/piano duet.