Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Katherine Manker

Katherine Manker spent seven seasons as Associate Concertmaster with the North Carolina Symphony, before moving to Montréal. Currently, she is teaching for the McGill Music Conservatory and is an active freelance musician, performing frequently with l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Ms. Manker joined the North Carolina Symphony after spending several years in Southern California, regularly performing with the Santa Barbara Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Opera Pacific, and freelance work in the motion picture, television, and recording industries. She studied with Linda Cerone at the Cleveland Institute of Music where she received her Bachelor of Music degree and continued her violin studies at the R.D. Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles as a scholarship student of Robert Lipsett. Ms. Manker has taught for the Preparatory Department of the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Ashtabula Arts Center in Ohio, the R.D. Colburn School of Performing Arts, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most recently, she has become the Artistic Coordinator for Festival Alexandria

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