A native of Sydney, Australia, Katrina now lives in Cork and lectures in flute at the MTU Cork School of Music and also teaches at the Cork ETB School of Music in Ireland.
She attended the Sydney Conservatorium High School and graduated with an advanced performance diploma (DSCM). The award of a Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee scholarship enabled her to further her study in Austria at the University of Music in Vienna with principal flute of the Vienna Philharmonic, Wolfgang Schulz where she completed her MA in 1995. In Vienna she freelanced with many orchestras and ensembles including contemporary music ensemble Klangforum Wien, with whom she performed on many occasions including for the Salzburg Festival and at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
As a soloist she has toured with the Welsh Chamber Orchestra and Willoughby Symphony Orchestra Sydney. She has also played with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, toured Europe, Asia and America with the Vienna Mozart Orchestra and Strauss Festival Orchestra and was a founding member of the Vienna Pocket Opera.
Her compositions are published by Tetractys Publications in London and in 2023 her quartet Summer Breeze was the winner of the American Flute Association newly published music award for flute quartet.
In 2024 the she was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award which enabled her to attend the Grolloo flute sessions with Ian Clarke, Matthias Ziegler and Wissam Boustany and further research arranging and writing for flutes. In recent years she has played also given concerts and masterclasses in Italy as part of an ongoing Erasmus exchange. She is musical director of the CAFE Cork Flute Ensemble based in MTU and has played with the Barrack St Band, Cork Concert Orchestra and Cork Philharmonic Winds.
Besides teaching, composing and performing she also plays traditional Irish music and enjoys sailing and yoga. In 2017 she returned to life on the land after a 3 year sailing adventure, circumnavigating the world with her husband on a 13 metre boat.
