Katy made her concerto debut aged ten performing Lalo's Symphony Espagnole in Birmingham's Adrian Boult Hall after winning the Junior Department’s concerto competition, and has since performed as soloist with numerous orchestras throughout the UK and abroad. In 2022, with five days notice, she stepped in for a tour to Prague with the Kimichi Symphony Orchestra performing the Tchaikovsky concerto twice on the same day. Most recently, she arranged Tartini’s Devil’s trill sonata for String Orchestra and harpsichord for a concert with the Fulltone Orchestra in Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre, where she directed and played both the Devil’s Trill sonata and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
Katy was soloist with the New English Concert Orchestra at the Battle Proms - a series of six concerts across the summer to audiences of up to 10,000. She was the first soloist to be invited back for a second year running, and again as their favourite soloist for their 20 year anniversary concert. She has worked with notable conductors such as; Ben Palmer, Keith Slade, Russell Keable and Douglas Coombes MBE, has won several competitions including the Eastbourne International Young soloist competition, and appeared on national television as a strings finalist of BBC Young Musician of the Year.
Katy started lessons aged 5 with her local teacher Alex Brulo, starting at the Yehudi Menuhin School in 2002, where she studied with Berent Korfker. She continued with Korfker at the Royal College of Music, attaining a first class Bachelor of Music (hons) degree, with scholarships from the Richard Carne Charitable Trust, Seary Trust and Martin Musical Scholarship Foundation.
After auditioning for a Master’s degree in 2019 at the Royal Academy, Katy was propelled straight onto the Advanced Diploma course due to her experience and standard, where she studied with György Pauk and graduated in 2022. During her time there she also partook in lessons with Jack Liebeck, Leon Chilingarian, and James Baillieu, and formed a duo with Eunji Han.
Performing with orchestras, particularly Romantic concertos such as those by Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov and Mendelssohn, has always been Katy’s biggest passion. More recently she has become interested in the development of the bow and how it might impact her interpretation of different repertoire. This was explored at her final recital at RAM, where she used five bows matching them each to a different composer - including Elgar’s bow! She would love to perform Elgar’s concerto with his bow some day soon.
Katy is an advocate for musicians with disabilities, being diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome herself. She has begun telling her story as a successful musician with a disability on social media gaining 1.1k followers in a fortnight, inspiring others to share their stories.
Katy plays on a fine 18th century English violin made by Nathaniel Cross and is generously sponsored by Pirastro.