Katherine Liu’s biography

Katherine Liu is a dual major in Childhood Education and Music.  She is a member of The Education Honor Society (Kappa Delta Pi) and The National Leadership Honor Society (Omicron Delta Kappa) at Wagner College.

Since her senior year at the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts and the Preparatory Division of Mannes College of Music, Katherine has been studying violin with Sally Thomas.  Katherine is a recipient of numerous awards and has attended and performed at the Interlochen Arts Camp, Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute, and the Meadowmount School of Music, where she was teaching assistant for Ms. Sally Thomas in 2013.  Throughout her undergraduate years, Katherine has been a member of the New York Youth Symphony Orchestra and its Chamber Music Program, in the course of which she has performed in master classes with Joel Krosnick, Fred Sherry, Alan Kay, David Krakauer, Ani Kavafian and Daniel Phillips (the mentor for the 2013 Weill Recital Hall performance by her string quartet, Casadesus).

In 2012 and 2013, her chamber groups, Piavioclarello and the Casadesus Quartet, were the recipients of the New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program Director's Award.  She was the Apprentice Coach Intern of the NYYSCMP in 2013, and is currently assistant manager of the program.  In June 2013, she received highest accolades as guest soloist in Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto with the Symphony Orchestra of the National Taiwan Normal University for Teachers in Taipei.

Katherine has been accepted to The Juilliard School and will begin pursuing her Master of Music degree this 2014 fall.