BIOGRAPHY

Flutist Katrina Walter's orchestral career has led her throughout the United States, Eastern Europe, and South Korea. Formerly a member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL, she performed regularly under the baton of renowned conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. As a freelance flutist in the San Francisco Bay Area, Katrina is a member of the Marin Symphony and a regular substitute with the San Francisco Symphony, including the SFS 2023 tour to Paris, Luxembourg, and Hamburg.

Ms. Walter has been fortunate to work with many world-class musicians, including the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle, where she replaced the LSO’s ailing piccolo player with one hour’s notice on the Bay Area portion of their US West Coast tour. Recently, Gustavo Dudamel described her piccolo playing as “beautiful” and she has worked with many other noted conductors such as Marin Alsop, Lorin Maazel, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Peter Oundjian, David Robertson, Donald Runnicles, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Leonard Slatkin, Robert Spano, Osmo Vänskä, and David Zinman. In 2008, Katrina was privileged to perform chamber music with the inimitable Paula Robison, and she has shared a stage in an orchestral setting with musical luminaries such as Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Ray Chen, Jeremy Denk, Vladimir Feltsman, Renée Fleming, Midori, Itzhak Perlman, and Gil Shaham. In 2012, Katrina served as Guest Principal Flute of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra for six months, appearing on three of their Naxos label recordings. She has performed with the San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Opera, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony, and many regional orchestras.

Also accomplished as a soloist, Katrina’s solo performance highlights include winning the 2006 concerto competition at the Music Academy of the West, as well as 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. She has performed concerti with the Marin Symphony and at the Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo. Radio broadcasts of her recitals and other solo performances have been featured on classical music stations WFMT-Chicago, WNIB, and KDB-FM. Katrina has been a winner of 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.

A graduate of Northwestern University (BM, summa cum laude) and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (MM), Katrina has also studied and performed at a number of music festivals: the Tanglewood Music Center, the Music Academy of the West, and the Aspen, Spoleto USA, and Castleton Music Festivals. Her principal teachers were Timothy Day, Walfrid Kujala, and Donna Milanovich, with additional influence from Donald Peck, Richard Graef, and Mark Sparks.

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