Multi-award winning musician, composer, academic and arts leader

Kathryn is a unique, interdisciplinary researcher with a professional practice in historical folk performance and composition for theatre and radio. She has recently completed a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship at Newcastle University in the UK, researching a performance history of morris dancing around the British Isles.

Sounds of Cliffs and Seas

An EP of ambient strings, experimental sounds and plucked meditations in telling the tales of a child’s interaction with animals on the ice and in the water.

  • The Tabor: Original Morris Instrument?

    Podcast episode with Early Music @ Newcastle

    Listen on YouTube

  • Ubiquitous Music in Early Modern England

    Newcastle University UK, January 2023

    Kathryn organised a symposium inviting some of the most well-known scholars of vernacular music to speak and performed a morris dance with her new folk group, Talon.

Featured Interview

October 2021

With ABC’s The Music Show

British Folk from a Yorkshire Valley and Shakespeare’s Globe

Testimonials

“Her music is delicious, aural enjoyment.”

— Judith Greenaway, Sydney Arts Guide.

“Kathryn’s leadership is outstanding.”

— Dr Peter Binks, former CEO of the John Monash Foundation

Get in touch

Kathryn works as a musician, composer and dramaturg on a project basis, depending on availability.