Kathryn Lockwood

Kathryn Lockwood has been hailed as a violist of exceptional talents in reviews around the country. The Cleveland Plain Dealer proclaimed, ”...Lockwood played the vociferous viola cadenza with mahogany beauty and vivid character.” 2005 marked the release of Kathryn’s solo recital CD of Viola Music by Inessa Zaretsky, “Fireoptics”, which Strad declared “Lockwood is absolutely inside the music's idiom finding appropriate tonal shadings”.Kathryn is a member of the internationally renowned Lark Quartet, and has been guest artist with ensembles such as Trio Solisti, The Muir Quartet, and Triple Helix, and has collaborated with artists Branford Marsalis, Cho-Liang Lin, and the Bill T Jones Dance Company. A native of Australia, Kathryn moved to the US in 1991 and captured solo awards at the Primrose International Viola Competition, and The Washington International Competition for Strings.As a founding member of the Pacifica Quartet, she was heard live in residence on National Public Radio's "Performance Today" and on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and at The Ravinia Festival. She has recorded for Cedille records, including a collaboration with Guarneri String Quartet violist Michael Tree and for Arabesque and Bribie Recordings.Recent faculty positions include University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mason Gross School of Music at Rutgers University, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and in the past, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Interlochen Academy, Music Institute of Chicago, and National Music Camp in Australia. She earned her master's degree with Donald McInnes at the University of Southern California and her Bachelor of Music degree from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music with Elizabeth Morgan.