Lisa Katt
Director of Music
Lisa serves Grace Lutheran Church as Director of Music, leading the Choir, United Adoration worship band, and Joyringers handbell choir after more than twenty years in the music program at Grace.
About Lisa
Lisa Katt has been a part of the music program at Grace Lutheran Tampa for over 20 years and became the Director of Music in 2021. She leads the Choir, United Adoration worship band, and Joyringers handbell choir, and also collaborates with Pastor Jennifer and Jim Sawyers on music planning for worship services at Grace.
She teaches private voice lessons in her home studio, with more than 40 students of all ages and experience levels on her roster. Lisa’s students have gone on to prestigious music programs and professional singing careers under her leadership.
Before Lisa focused primarily on teaching and directing, she was a singer and actress whose performance career included musical theater, classical concert, oratorio, and opera. Highlights include Forbidden Broadway at the Straz Center, Little Women (Marmee), The Secret Garden (Martha), and multiple masterworks concerts with The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay as soprano soloist.
Lisa received her master’s degree in Voice Performance at USF and holds two bachelor’s degrees, in Voice Performance and Music Education, from Stetson University. She lives in Land O Lakes and has two adult children: Lucky, a registered behavioral technician and an aspiring singer-songwriter, and Elias, a high school senior planning to major in themed entertainment design.