Katherine H. Murdock, viola
Katherine Murdock, viola, has performed in the great concert halls of the world as a member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and with such groups as Music from Marlboro, Boston Chamber Music Society, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. A frequent guest at music festivals throughout the world, she has appeared at the Edinburgh, Salzburg, Spoleto, and Gulbenkian festivals, the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove in Cornwall, and in the U.S. at Ravinia, Saratoga, Wolf Trap, Mostly Mozart, Tanglewood, Aspen, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. She has been a guest of the Emerson, Miami, Vermeer, and Guarneri string quartets as well as the Beaux Arts Trio, and has performed live on many programs including NPR Performance Today, St. Paul Sunday, Bulgarian State Radio, West German Radio, and the BBC.
Currently Professor of Viola at the University of Maryland, she has served on the faculties of Boston Conservatory, Wellesley College, the Hartt School, University of Delaware; Ms. Murdock served as Blodgett Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University, and for nine years as viola faculty at SUNY Stony Brook. She has been on the artist faculty of the Yellow Barn and Kneisel Hall festivals for 26 years and toured and recorded for many years as violist of the Los Angeles Piano Quartet. In recent years she has toured New Zealand, Turkey, Taiwan, Guatemala, and Brazil to perform recitals and master classes. Her students fill quartet and orchestra positions in the US and internationally, including the Boston Symphony, principal viola of San Diego Symphony, A Far Cry, Minnesota Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Australian String Quartet, and serve as professors at universities and conservatories across the globe.