Katherine Bormann

Violin
The Cleveland Orchestra

Katherine Bormann joined the first violin section of The Cleveland Orchestra in March 2011. Prior to her appointment, she was a member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida, where she performed as soloist and concertmaster.  A native of Bismarck, North Dakota, Ms. Bormann holds a bachelor of music degree from Rice University and a master of music degree from the Juilliard School. Her principal teachers were Kathleen Winkler, Joel Smirnoff, and Ronald Copes.  Ms. Bormann has participated in the Aspen Music Festival, Beijing International Music Festival and Academy, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Festival, where she was awarded the Jules C. Reiner Violin Prize. She has appeared on the "Wednesdays at One" concert series at Alice Tully Hall, and performed in the American premiere of Augusta Read Thomas’s The Soul is Light, for oboe, violin, and harp. For two summers, Ms. Bormann was a member of Tanglewood’s New Fromm Players, a contemporary music chamber ensemble.