Praised by the New York Times for her “sublime tone,” violinist Catherine Cho has appeared as soloist with orchestras including the Detroit, National, Montreal, Edmonton, and National Arts Centre orchestras, the KBS and Seoul Philharmonic in Korea, the Barcelona Symphony, and the New Zealand Symphony. Her collaborations with distinguished conductors include Mstislav Rostropovich, Robert Spano, and Hugh Wolff. Her concert performance of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, with the Buffalo Philharmonic under the baton of Jo-Ann Falletta, was broadcast nationwide on PBS Television in January 2002. As a recitalist and chamber musician, Catherine has performed on the stages of Alice Tully Hall with the Chamber Music Society at New York’s Lincoln Center, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Casals Hall in Tokyo as a member of the Casals Hall Ensemble, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the 92nd Street Y, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston, and on Ravinia’s “Rising Stars” series. Catherine was a participant in the Marlboro Music Festival from 1993 to 2001, and has taken part in eleven “Musicians from Marlboro” national tours. She is a founding member of the chamber ensemble, La Fenice, and was a member of the Johannes String Quartet from 2003 to 2006. A winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Catherine won prizes at the Montreal, Hanover, and Queen Elizabeth international violin competitions. She is a member of the violin and chamber music faculty at The Juilliard School, and has taught at the NY String Seminar, Heifetz Institute, Great Mountains Music School and Festival, and the Perlman Music Program. Catherine is currently an Artist Member for Music for Food, a musician led initiative for fighting hunger in local communities. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Todd Phillips, and their son, Brandon, and has performed at the SLLMF since 2018.
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