 |
After finishing her enlistment with the United States Premier Coast Guard Band as a section clarinetist in April 2007, Katie Curran has become an active freelance and chamber musician in the Atlanta area. Katie currently the holds the Second Clarinet position in the Tuscaloosa Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the Gainesville Georgia Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Ballet, Atlanta Opera, Cobb Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, as well as several orchestras in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Tennessee and Virginia.
Katie received a Bachelor of Music degree from Central Michigan University and continued her studies at the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music where she received a Master of Music degree in 2002. Her primary teachers include Richard Hawley, Theodore Oien, Dr. Kennen White, and Ronald de Kant. During her studies, Katie attended several summer music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy, and the Brevard Music Festival.
In 2010 Katie was a featured soloist at the annual GMEA conference in Savannah, Georgia performing Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with the Hillgrove High School Orchestra. In 2006 Katie and members of the United States Coast Guard Band Woodwind Trio performed and were semi-finalists in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and in July 2007, the trio performed at the International Clarinet Association Festival in Vancouver, B.C.
In addition to her performance career, Katie has been an active private instructor and outreach clinician since 2001. During the fall of 2011, she was appointed clarinet artist affiliate at both Emory University and Agnes Scott College.
|
