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

Kathryn is a musician and academic working in the areas of folk performance and composition. In 2021 Kathryn was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship that took her to Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK to research a performance history of morris dancing music and its musicians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Upcoming performances and speaking events

Ubiquitous Music Workshop - Renaissance Society of America Conference, March 20

The Bard Band - National Folk Festival, Canberra, April 17-20

Featured Video - Hold Thy Peace

in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Performed by Shalani Thomas, Kathryn Roberts Parker and George Teasdell

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.