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Katherine Heater
B.A., UC Berkley (Music)
M.M., Oberlin Conservatory (Historical Performance)
Since 1996, harpsichordist, fortepianist, and organist Katherine Heater has made her home in the San Francisco Bay Area where she is a frequent performer with early music groups such as Magnificat and the California Bach Society. Ms. Heater received her B.A. in music from UC Berkeley and her M.M. in historical performance from Oberlin Conservatory. Thanks to fellowships from her alma mater and Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, Ms. Heater studied early keyboards at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam. She has performed throughout the United States, including at the Bloomington Early Music Festival, the Berkeley Early Music Festival, and the Tropical Baroque Festival of Miami, as well as abroad in Iceland, Taiwan, France and the Netherlands. Ms. Heater is the co-director of the San Francisco Early Music Society’s baroque and recorder summer workshops; she was formerly director of the SFEMS Music Discovery Workshop, an early music summer camp for children held at the Crowden School. Since 1997, she has been a judge and board member for the Junior Bach Festival.