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Faculty & Staff > Performace > Katherine Murdock |
Katherine Murdock, Artist in Residence;
Viola and Chamber Music
E-mail Katherine Murdock at
Kmurdock[at]umd.edu
Katherine Murdock joined the Stony Brook faculty in Fall, 2001. Ms. Murdock pursues an active career as soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. She has performed throughout the world with such groups as the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Chamber Music Society, and the Brandenburg Ensemble. For six years, Ms. Murdock was a member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet. With this group she toured internationally and premiered many new works for string quartet. As a participant in the Marlboro Festival, she has toured with Music from Marlboro, and performed on their fortieth anniversary concerts in Philadelphia and New York's Carnegie Hall. She has appeared on the 'Great Performers at Lincoln Center' series as a guest of the Beaux Arts Trio; in recent seasons she has performed as a guest of the New Zealand String Quartet, the Audobon Quartet, the Axelrod Quartet, and the Vermeer Quartet. As soloist she has performed with the Fairfax Symphony, the Reading Symphony, and the New England Chamber Orchestra, among others, and with the Boston Musica Viva on West German Radio and the BBC. Her orchestral career includes extensive performing experience with the Boston Symphony and the National Symphony , as well as a one year position in 1996 with the New York Philharmonic. For twelve years she has performed and recorded with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.Ms. Murdock received her musical training at Oberlin and the Yale School of Music. She has studied with Karen Tuttle and Joseph Silverstein; for two summers she attended the Banff School of Fine Arts as a student of the late William Primrose.
Ms. Murdock has been a participant in numerous summer festivals, including the Edinburgh, Salzburg, and Gulbenkian Festivals, the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, and in the U.S. at Aspen, Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, La Musica of Sarasota, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. She has served on the faculties of the University of Maryland, the Boston Conservatory, the Longy School, Wellesley College, and the Hartt School of Music, as well as held the position of Artist in Residence at Harvard University and the University of Delaware. During the summers she is on the artist-faculty of the Yellow Barn and Kneisel Hall festivals. She performs regularly as a member of the Los Angeles Piano Quartet and the Theater Chamber Players of Washington D.C.
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