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In addition to performance and teaching, Katrina also works with her husband, horn player Andrew Clark in their joint business - clarkbrass.ca - making both historical and modern horns, and other brass instruments. Katrina is currently on Faculty at the Nanaimo Conservatory of Music, and teaches as part of the Baroque Orchestra Mentorship Programme at the University of British Columbia. She taught for several seasons at the Comox Valley Youth Music Centre summer music camp, and has been the Baroque Bassoon instructor for the Summer Baroque Academy at the Victoria Conservatory since 2017. As well as bassoon instruction, she has given specialist classes in reed making techniques and been involved with school and community based educational workshops, including most recently the Early Music Vancouver “Online School - Encountering the Baroque Orchestra”.
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She also appears regularly with various West Coast period instrument ensembles, including Early Music Vancouver, The Pacific Baroque Orchestra, and Victoria Baroque.Īs a teacher, Katrina has been teaching privately since 1987 with students ranging in age from 11 to 80. She has also performed with The London Chamber Orchestra, and in North America with New York Philomusica, the Vancouver Symphony, Victoria Symphony and the Vancouver Island Symphony. As a member of many of these groups Katrina has toured widely, appearing at many leading festivals around the world including Perth (Australia), Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg, Mostly Mozart (Lincoln Center, New York), and the BBC Proms. As a specialist in historical performance, she has played and recorded with many of the period instrument ensembles in Britain and Europe, including The English Concert, The King’s Consort, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Academy of Ancient Music, The Hanover Band, The Gabrieli Consort and Players, L’Orchestre de la Champs Elysees, The Orchestra of “The Sixteen”, and The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, amongst others. Having located to Vancouver Island in 2010, she previously lived in London, England where she spent many years playing both modern and historical bassoons. Armed only with a handful of bassoons and a desire to play them, Katrina moved to London, England where she was lucky enough to spend eighteen years playing. After several years of return visits to Canada to play with Early Music Vancouver ensembles and The Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Katrina and her husband (British horn player Andrew Clark) relocated to the West Coast in late 2010, and established themselves near Ladysmith where they have a speciality brass making workshop producing horns and trumpets.Katrina Russell has a diverse performance background with repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary music, and from orchestral playing to solo appearances. Specializing in historical performance, she played and recorded with many of the period instrument ensembles in Britain and Europe, including The English Concert, The King’s Consort, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The Academy of Ancient Music, The Hanover Band, The Gabrieli Consort and Players, L’Orchestre de la Champs Elysees, The Orchestra of “The Sixteen”, and The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. There she was able to pursue her interest in the Baroque bassoon, and was granted a Graduate Diploma Historical Performance with distinction in performance.Īrmed only with a handful of bassoons and a desire to play them, Katrina moved to London, England where she was lucky enough to spend eighteen years playing them (as well as several others that presented themselves along the way). At the age of 4 she received her first lessons at home from her father and two. Further studies took her to Toronto, Banff, and then to Boston Massachusetts where she attended the New England Conservatory of Music. British violin player Katrina Rafferty, comes from a family of violinists. Born and raised in Edmonton, Katrina Russell obtained her Bachelor of Music Degree in Performance from The University of Victoria.