KAREN BEARDSLEY'S extraordinary career has taken her around the globe...

singing leading roles in opera houses 280 days a year for over 15 years. From Los Angeles to the Paris Chatelet, Taiwan to the National Theatre in London, Santa Fe to Chicago, Amsterdam to Boston, Edmonton to Minneapolis, Lille and Nancy, France to Glyndebourne, Singapore to the New York City, opera, New York, Philharmonic, and Carnegie Hall, it was her absolute pleasure to sing with prestigious, colleagues and conductors including Andre Previn, Zubin Mehta, Pinchas Zuckerman, Eduardo Muller, Claudio Bernini, Lukas Foss and Oliver Knussen.

After her children were born, she joined the precollege faculty at Manhattan School of Music where she taught for 17 years. She and her husband Maitland Peters, then chairman of the Manhattan School of Music college voice department created an endowed scholarship in their name to provide the ongoing opportunity to study in the pre-college division at Manhattan School of Music At the same time, she established a private studio in Tenafly, New Jersey with over 40 students whom she mentored and prepared for high school and college auditions, quarterly recitals, and monthly performance classes. She taught for over 30 years and it was as rewarding as her performing career!