Katherine Kyme

Baroque violin and viola

Katherine Kyme, frequent concertmaster of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra of San Francisco, is an avid chamber musician. As founding member of the Artaria Quartet, the Sierra Quartet and presently, The New Esterházy Quartet, she has enjoyed presenting all 68 of Haydn’s String Quartets two times over.  Her most recent passion is performing all of the Bach Cantatas with her group, The Cantata Collective, which gives five concerts each season and has expanded to include the larger works of Bach; the St. John Passion and the B Minor Mass  are already in production.
She was a member of the Streicher Trio for 25 years specializing in the music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, and the Arcadian Academy with Nicholas McGegan and Elizabeth Blumenstock which specialized in chamber music of 17th Century.
A devoted and inspirational  teacher, she conducts Berkeley Baroque Strings which performs three concert sets each season. She is also conductor of the String Program of the Californian Youth Symphony where she meets weekly with her three orchestras and performs three times a year.