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Katrina Wreede

Katrina Wreede has been a professional symphony musician, a jazz violist, a member of the Turtle Island String Quartet, a concert soloist, a belly dancer, a police fingerprinter, a non-denominational wedding officiant, a player of Tango Nuevo, Persian and Central European music and a composer for soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestras, film, and dance, sometimes collaborating with other artists to create works about social injustice. Her works are distributed by MMB Music and performed internationally, including "Mr. Twitty's Chair", now in it's 10th touring season with the David Parsons Dance Group. She has taught advanced composition to exceptional youth musicians from 1998-2004, and 2007-8 with a grant from the American Composers Forum and was resident composer/creator of the "Junior Composer" program for the Berkeley Symphony as well as conducting workshops on improvisation and composition around the country, including Boston Conservatory, Bronxville New York School District and the Clairbourn School.

Recently Ms. Wreede has written works for the Menlo Brass Quintet, AXIS Dance Troupe, the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, the Tassajara Symphony Orchestra, the Pegasus Quartet, the Vox Novus 60x60 project, "Music for People to Play", works for her own ensembles, Synchronopolis and Serafine Trio, and several silent film scores, including "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend". She is a contributing author to the American String Teachers Association book, "Playing and Teaching the Viola", and wrote a handbook on teaching composition to teenagers. She was also a presenting artist at the American String Teachers national convention in 2004, 2005 and again in February, 2008, teaching improvisation and composition techniques and has been Artist in Residence with the Oakland High School Jazz Orchestra and San Francisco's renowned Community Music Center.

Her electronic/acoustic work "56 seconds of Creep" is available on the Vox Novus label. The Pegasus Quartet released a CD of her works in 2005 entitled "Music of the Heart".