Biography
Katie has been a member of the Verbier Festival Orchestra since 2006 and will be performing with them again during 2007 in Switzerland at the Verbier Festival and on tour in the USA and Europe in the winter. She has also performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, St. George's Chamber Orchestra and Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra and is on the extra-work list for the London Mozart Players for basset horn work.

Solo achievements include reaching the woodwind finals of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, 2000, and performing Adams and Debussy in the RNCM's Concerto Award Finals in 2000 and 2001. In 2007 she won the Making Music Award for Young Concert Artists.

Katie has recorded with the European Union Youth Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon. Other studio work includes Dallapiccola's Goethe-Lieder for Delphian Records and film scores by Andrew Morgan for Awake Films.

Orchestral Work
Orchestras: Adderbury Ensemble, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Soloists Chamber Orchestra, Musical Associates (UK) Limited, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, St George's Chamber Orchestra, Verbier Festival Orchestra. Education Work: London Philharmonic Orchestra Education.

Katie's orchestral work also includes the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, New Professionals Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia and opera companies Second Movement and Opera East. In 2004 she was solo and bass clarinettist in "Clockwork" by McNeff, an opera collaboration between the Philharmonia and the Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, and in autumn 2006 Katie performed clarinet and bass clarinet in McNeff's new opera, "Tarka the Otter" at the Two Moors Festival, conducted by Nicholas Cleobury.

Education
Katie's graduate studies took place at the Royal Academy of Music (PG Dip Performance, including Distinction in Final Recital, 2002 - 04) and the Royal Northern College of Music (First class BMus (Hons), 1999 - 2002).

Prizes and Awards

• Making Music Award for Young Concert Artists winner (2007)
• BBC Young Musician of the Year National Woodwind Finalist (2000)
• RAM Sir Nicholas Blake Prize for Woodwind/Brass ensemble winner (2003)
• Edinburgh Competition Festival Concerto Award winner (1998)
• Winifred Disney and Lena Pritchard Green Scholarships to the RAM (2002 & 2003)
• MBF Music Education Award (2003)
• Sit James Caird Travelling Scholarships Trust Award (2002 & 2003)
• Philharmonia Orchestra's Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Award (2003)
• RNCM Concerto Award Finalist, Adams and Debussy (2000 & 2001)

Teachers: Royal Academy of Music: Nicholas Rodwell, Angela Malsbury, Mark van de Wiel & Richard Addison.
Royal Northern College of Music: John Bradbury, Nicholas Cox, Chris Swann, Barnaby Robson & Colin Pownall.

Katie joined Morgensterns in May 2006

Katie's web profile was last updated 16th Nov 2008