Katie Lockhart

Born in Edinburgh in 1980, Katie was brought up in the Highlands of Scotland. She undertook her musical studies at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM), Manchester, obtaining a 1st class honours degree, and then continued them as a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM), London, obtaining a distinction for her final recital.

When Katie was a student she performed as a soloist in the woodwind finals of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition 2000, which was broadcast on BBC television and radio. She was also a concerto award finalist at the RNCM and was a winner of the Sir Nicholas Blake chamber music prize at the RAM in 2003. She is now a freelance clarinettist, living and working in London, combining solo, chamber and orchestral work. She has performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Manchester Camerata and has also worked with Opera East, Second Movement and the New Professionals Orchestra.

Last year Katie performed and toured with the European Union Youth Orchestra and the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra, returning from a tour of Europe, Asia and Australia in December. This year she will be touring with them to the U.S.A and Europe.

The orchestra has been able to secure Katie through the charity, Making Music. In 2007 Katie won Making Music’s Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, an award which has been instrumental in launching the careers of many of today's stars. The Award enables young musicians at the start of their career to gain vital concert and recital experience across the UK. The scheme also allows Making Music member groups to tap into some of the very best young musical talent to programme into their concert season.