Katie attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she completed both her undergraduate and Masters degrees and later became an Artists Fellow. She studied oboe with Richard Simpson, Gordon Hunt and David Walter, cor anglais with Jane Marshall and percussion with Chris Brannick.
Numerous competition successes include a British Double Reed Society prize winner at the Barbirolli International Festival and Competition 2009, the Needlemaker’s Woodwind Prize Finalist in 2008 and first prize in the Slaughter and May Musician of the Year Award in December 2007.
As well as being a member of Southbank Sinfonia, she is on trial for 2nd oboe with both the London Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia, and also freelances with other professional orchestras such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Orquestra do Norte in Portugal.
Her solo performances include concertos by M. Berkeley, R. Strauss, A. Marcello, P. Stanhope and J. S. Bach. Katie is a keen chamber musician and is a founding member of Circle of Fifths Wind Quintet, Polymnia Ensemble and Calandra Oboe Quartet which have given many recitals and workshops around the country.
Katie’s love of ballet (which she studied for fifteen years), art and drama have led her to become passionate about collaborating with other performing artists to create new and enhance existing works. For the past two years she has co-led an improvisation group at GSMD for musicians and actors alike to discover new means of expression.
