Kathryn Parry
Violin
Kathryn Parry has a rich and varied career as an orchestral and chamber musician, recitalist and teacher. She studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge and at the Royal Academy of Music.
She has played with many of the UK’s leading orchestras and was a member of the London Philharmonic and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, living in Edinburgh and performing with the Hebrides Ensemble and Scottish Ensemble and as guest leader of the Edinburgh Quartet.
As a member of the Bell’Arte Ensemble, she gave the inaugural chamber concert in Birmingham’s Symphony Hall, playing piano quintets with Sir Simon Rattle, and as a recitalist, she has performed for music clubs and festivals nationwide and abroad.
Kathryn was a member of La Serenissima and string quartet The Revolutionary Drawing Room and plays with the London Handel Orchestra, ETO, and the OAE. She has recorded numerous film soundtracks and is a named artist on Sting’s album Ten Summoners’ Tales and the Ship’s Fiddler in Alexander L’Estrange’s Ahoy!
Kathryn has worked as a primary school specialist music teacher and is much in demand as a chamber music coach, workshop leader and festival adjudicator. She is a celebrated teacher and was awarded an ARAM in recognition of her contribution to the music profession.
