Katherine
Knight
Instructor, Cello
TRVH 321
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Biography
Growing up in a family
of artists, actors and writers, cellist Katharine Knight found her muse
when she fell in love with the cello at age 10. A native of Baltimore,
she attended the Peabody Institute where she studied with a succession
of protégés of the great Russian cellist, Gregor Piatigorsky
– principally Stephen Kates and Laurence Lesser, whom she followed to
the New England Conservatory in Boston for graduate studies. She received
a Master of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where
she served as teaching assistant to Wolfgang Laufer, cellist of the Fine
Arts Quartet.
A co-founder
of the former Da Vinci Quartet in 1980, Ms. Knight has performed across
the United States, as well as in Russia, England and Canada. She has recorded
extensively; and, with abundant teaching credits to her name, is also
a veteran of many international competitions.
In addition to
her near quarter century with the Da Vinci Quartet, Ms. Knight performs
regularly as a recitalist, guest artist with other chamber ensembles,
and as a member of Hot Celli – a duo with husband and fellow cellist,
Richard Slavich.
Ms. Knight joined
the music faculty of the Colorado College in 1999 as cello instructor,
and is a member of the chamber music faculty at the University of Denver
's Lamont School of Music.
She plays a 1997
cello made by the husband and wife team Joseph Grubaugh and Sigrun Seifert.
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