Katie Lansdale
VIOLINIST
Violinist Katie Lansdale is widely acclaimed as soloist, chamber musician, and educator. She has performed as soloist and chamber artist in North/South America and Europe, and on numerous American concert series, including Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall and Lincoln Center’s Rose Room. Winner of Grand Prizes at the Fischoff and Yellow Springs national chamber competitions, Lansdale has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Felix Galimir, Donald Weilerstein, the Miami Quartet, Robert MacDonald, and Charles Neidich.
For over 35 years she has been a member of the internationally-acclaimed Lions Gate Trio, trio in residence at the Hartt School, recording for Centaur and Triton records and performing across Europe and the Eastern US. Lansdale's concerto appearances have included with the National Symphony, the Austin Mozart Orchestra, the Schroeder Classical Orchestra, the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the NY Spectrum Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony and the New York Repertory Orchestra. Lansdale has garnered particular attention for her performances of solo Bach, performing the complete cycle over a dozen times in North and South America. “This is one of the best recordings of this music,” wrote the American Record Guide of her Bach CD (Amazon.com).
A student of with Ronda Cole, Josef Gingold, Felix Galimir, Donald Weilerstein and Mitchell Stern, she graduated cum laude from Yale and earned graduate music degrees (M.M., D.M.A.) at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Manhattan School of Music. Lansdale teaches at the Hartt School at the University of Hartford and at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.