Currently a member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, flutist Katrina Walter's orchestral career has led her throughout the United States as well as Eastern Europe and South Korea.
Katrina has worked with many noted conductors, including Michael Tilson Thomas, Marin Alsop, Rafael Frübeck de Burgos, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Oliver Knussen, James Levine, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, David Robertson, Donald Runnicles, Leonard Slatkin, Robert Spano, Michael Stern, Osmo Vänskä, Mark Wigglesworth, and David Zinman. In 2008, Katrina was privileged to perform chamber music with world-renowned flutist Paula Robison, and she has shared a stage in an orchestral setting with artists such as Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Jeremy Denk, Vladimir Feltsman, Renée Fleming, Garrick Ohlsson, Itzhak Perlman, Peter Serkin, and Gil Shaham. In addition to her regular performances with the New World Symphony, Katrina is also a substitute musician for the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, with whom she has performed both orchestral and operatic literature.
A graduate of Northwestern University (B.M., summa cum laude) and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (M.M.), Katrina has also studied and performed at a number of national summer music festivals: the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West (where she won the 2006 concerto competition), and Spoleto USA Festival. Her principal teachers were Timothy Day, Walfrid Kujala, and Donna Milanovich, with additional influence from Donald Peck, Richard Graef, and Mark Sparks.
Solo performance highlights include flute recitals on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, the Orpheus Young Artist Series, and the Noonday Concert Series at the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, as well as radio broadcasts on WFMT-Chicago, WNIB (Chicago), and KDB-FM (Santa Barbara). Katrina has received top awards in competitions sponsored by the New York Flute Club, Union League Civic and Arts Foundation of Chicago, Musicians Club of Women, Flute Society of Washington, Society of American Musicians, Chicago Flute Club, Music Teacher's National Association, and National Flute Association.
