She holds a DMA from Columbia University and an MM from Yale School of Music. She counts among her mentors George Lewis, Georg Friedrich Haas, Marcos Balter, Zosha Di Castri, Aaron Kernis, Chris Theofanidis, and David Lang. She was the 2017–20 composer-in-residence for the California Symphony, where she was lauded by the Mercury News as a “superbly gifted composer [with] a compositional voice that is truly unique and full of wonder.” She held the 2017-2019 William B. Butz Composition Chair at Young Concert Artists, Inc. 

Winner of the 2020/21 Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome, Katherine was nominated by violinist Hilary Hahn for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s 2020 Career Advancement Award. She has also been honoured by ASCAP, BMI, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chamber Music America, Barlow Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, Serge Koussevitsky Music Foundation, and Wigmore Hall. 

Katherine’s work has been commissioned and performed by leading ensembles including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and the symphony orchestras of Dallas, Minnesota, Oregon, Albany, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, and Tokyo. She has been featured on IRCAM’s ManiFeste, Fontainebleau Music Festival, and Festival MANCA in France, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in the UK, Suntory Summer Arts and Takefu Music Festival in Japan, and the Aspen, Norfolk, Santa Fe, and Tanglewood music festivals in the United States. Her work has been presented in major global venues including Carnegie Hall, Disney Hall, and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall. 

Katherine is currently Assistant Professor of Composition (adj.) at Yale School of Music. She has previously served on the faculties of Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute, Mannes School of Music, Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, Walden School, and Bard College-Conservatory Prep. 

Selected works: Iaspis for violin scordatura (2013), The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year, chamber opera in one act after John Guare’s play for three soloists, two singing puppeteers and chamber orchestra (2013), aeiou for alto and soprano a cappella choir (2014), Recordatorio for contralto / countertenor and baroque ensemble (2014), speckled the green and blue for Pierrot Lunaire ensemble and percussion (2014–15), Leaf Catalogue for orchestra (2015), Vidi l’Angelo nel marmo for soprano and double bass (2015), With Each Breathing for string quartet (2015), New Geometry for octet (2015; version for 13 musicians, 2016), Ordinary Matter for piano four hands (2015), Una Corda for prepared piano and ensemble (2016), Responding to the Waves for violin (2016), Thread Unfurled for flute and piano (2016), Off Hesperus for retuned viola, electronics and 39 LED lights (2017), Leaf Fabric for orchestra (2017), Phrases for soprano and double bass (2017), drip / spin for flute and piano (2017), Drift for orchestra (2017), Quartet, or, three musical games for any four instrumentalists (2018), Prelude for cello and piano (2018), like a broken clock for orchestra (2018), Chamber Music for orchestra (2018; version for sinfonietta, 2021), Artifacts, concerto for violin and orchestra (2019), Kalesa Ed Kaluca for double bass septet (2019), drip music for string quartet (2019; version for nonet, 2021), Impromptu for orchestra (2019), Alienation for soprano and piano (2020), Two Songs for Robyn for violin and media (2020), Illuminate for three singers and orchestra (2020), these intervals matter for soprano, wine glasses and gravel (2020), Two Songs for Robyn for violin and media (2020), Two Memories for piano (2020), Impromptu for Hanzhi for accordion (2020), Trio for percussion, double bass and piano (2018–21), waste knot for soprano, four amplified dictaphones and ensemble (2021), forgetting for vocal sextet and toys (2021), musica spolia for flute, viola/ violin, percussion and piano (2021), Aluminum Forest for automated aluminium wind chimes (2021), droptet for papier mâché droplets and field recordings (2021), all around the sea blazed gold, sinfonietta (2022), whisper concerto for cello and orchestra (2023).