Short Bio
Katrina Wreede, composer and violist, has been a professional symphony musician, a jazz violist, a member of the ground-breaking Turtle Island String Quartet, a concert soloist, a belly dancer, a police finger-printer, a rhinestone-studded “continental” violinist for royalty, a non-denominational wedding officiant, a player of Tango Nuevo, Persian, and Roma music and a composer for soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestras, film, and dance. She created and performs the “Living Wind Chimes”, an audience-interactive set of brass pipes that she sets up in unusual venues: Botanical Gardens, Oakland Federal Building, Mendocino Headlands, even a columbarium. Her works are distributed by MMB Music and performed internationally, including “Mr. Twitty’s Chair”, performed regularly by the Ahn Trio. Her most recent recorded works appear on two Vox Novus’ “60×60” CDs and the Pegasus Quartet’s “Healing Heart” CD. She is a founding faculty member of the John Adams Young Composer Program and has taught advanced composition to exceptional youth through the American Composers Forum since 1998. She also conducts clinics and workshops on improvisation and composition around the country, including at Boston Conservatory, Cal Tech’s Prep High School, University of Colorado at Boulder, Berklee College of Music as well as many elementary, middle and high schools and professional conferences. Her most recent classroom residency package is called “Composing Together”.