KATE GOLDSMITH  (horn, horn natural) » 

Biography
Since leaving her position of two years as Principal Horn of the Cyprus Chamber Orchestra Kate has played with the Royal Philharmonic and BBC Concert Orchestras, the London Mozart Players and English Touring Opera. A Swan Hellenic Cruise to South America, performance art in Trafalgar square and a live televised show with rap/hip-hop artist Kanye West can be counted amongst her less conventional work. Kate has played natural and baroque horn with the Kings Consort, Il Complesso Barocco and Haydn Sinfonietta Wien.

Orchestral Work
Orchestras: City Chamber Ensemble, Cyprus Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Opera, English Pops Orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra, King's Camerata, London Concert Orchestra, Matrix Ensemble, New London Sinfonia, Opera East, Opera de Bauge, Opera della Luna, Sinfonia Verdi, Stanley Hall Opera, Surrey Philharmonic.

Kate's orchestral work also includes

Orchestral Work
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• London Mozart Players
• English Touring Opera
• Britten Sinfonia
• BBC Concert Orchestra
• Irish Film Orchestra (Wexford Opera Festival)
• Orchestra of the Swan

Recording Work
• DVD of Haydn's Ariodante - Spoletto Festival
• CD Haydn Arias - Manfred Huss with Haydn Sinfonietta Wien
• DVD/TV - The Queen's Golden Jubilee, Party at the Palace
• Film - Carmen of Khayelitsha - Musical Director, Charles Hazelwood

Natural/Baroque Horn
• Kings Consort
• Il Complesso Barocco - Alan Curtis
• Haydn Sinfonietta Wien
• Music for Awhile, Dir. Margaret Faultless

Chamber
• Endymion Ensemble
• Junior Chamber Fellow, Royal Academy of Music
• Charleston Manor Festival, with Robert Cohen

Education
Kate's graduate studies took place at Royal Academy of Music (2001 - 02) and Guildhall School of Music and Drama (1995 - 99).

Teachers: Jeffrey Bryant, Hugh Seenan, Anthony Halstead (Natural Horn), Richard Watkins and Andrew Clarke.

Kate joined Morgensterns in January 2007

Kate's web profile was last updated 12th May 2012