Her compositions are performed and broadcast internationally including by the Ahn Trio, David Parsons Dance Troupe, the Omaha Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Boston, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Tassajara Symphony, the Mill Valley Philharmonic, Orchestra Rosario in Argentina, Mexico's Ensamble de Violas, and durch Einsamkeiten in Germany. Vlazville Music publishes and distributes her sheet music and Add Viola and Stir, can be heard world-wide on radio and streaming sites.

In 2008, she founded Composing Together, an organization that brings professional composers and musicians into schools, creating and performing over 100 new works, collaborating with over 2000 Bay Area middle and high schoolers. There are currently 14 musicians and composers on the CT roster. She is a founding faculty member of the John Adams Young Composer Program at the Crowden School, designed and led Berkeley Symphony's Junior Composer Program, created and led the Berkeley Young Composers Ensemble, is a Certified Teaching Artist for the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, a member of the Teaching Artists Guild, and was a Composer in the Schools for the American Composers Forum-San Francisco Bay Area Chapter for nine years, including creating their handbook for composers working with teens. She has been on the Young Musicians Program faculty at the San Francisco Community Music Center for 8 years, where she started as a commissioned composer-in-residence, fell in love with their mission, and never left.

She conducts educational clinics around the country, including "My Goldfish Died-Blues for Strings". In 2009, her workshops served every string teacher in the state of Montana, helping to create blues and improvisation programs for their classrooms, and has provided in-service programs for American String Teachers Assoc, Music Teachers of America, San Francisco USD, Bronxville, New York USD, and Nevada County USD.

She is a contributing author of the American String Teachers Association book, Playing and Teaching the Viola and has contributed articles to the ASTA Journal, Journal of the American Viola Society, Strings Magazine, and many other music- oriented periodicals and newsletters.

You can find out more about Katrina on her website.

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