Kathryn Lockwood has been hailed as a violist of exceptional talents in reviews around the country. The Cleveland Plain Dealer proclaimed, ”...Lockwood played the vociferous viola cadenza with mahogany beauty and vivid character.” 2005 marked the release of Kathryn’s solo recital CD of Viola Music by Inessa Zaretsky, “Fireoptics”, which Strad declared “Lockwood is absolutely inside the music's idiom finding appropriate tonal shadings”. In addition to touring and recording with the Lark Quartet, Kathryn Lockwood performs with numerous other prestigious groups including Trio Solisti, Triple Helix, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Muir Quartet. She also performs with her husband Yousif Sheronick in the Lockwood/Sheronick Project, a viola and percussion duo that commissions and adapts innovative and world influenced music. Kathryn moved from her homeland of Australia to the United States in 1991 only to capture some of the most sought-after awards in the country including the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, Grand Prize at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition, Concert Artists Guild Management Award, and awards at solo competitions such as the Primrose Competition, Washington International Competition, and the Pasadena Instrumental Competition. Before relocating to New York in 2001 Kathryn held the position of violist of the Pacifica Quartet since its inception. As an original member of Pacifica Quartet, Kathryn was heard live on National Public Radio's "Performance Today" and on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Ravinia's Bennett Gordon Hall, Corcoran Gallery, St. Lawrence Center, and University of Thessaloniki /Greece. Kathryn collaborated with violist Michael Tree on an all Dvorak CD and composer Easley Blackwood on recordings released by Cedille Records. Collaborations include such artists as Cho-Liang Lin, Inessa Zaretsky, Branford Marsalis, St. Lawrence Quartet, and the Bill T Jones Dance Company. Currently on faculty at University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Rutgers University in NJ, the Concordia Conservatory in Bronxville NY and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Kathryn was previously on the faculty at Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Interlochen Academy, Music Institute of Chicago, and National Music Camp in Australia. Kathryn earned her Master's Degree with Donald McInnes at the University of Southern California, and her Bachelor of Music Degree from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music with Elizabeth Morgan. She performs on a Belgian viola from 1690 by Gaspor Borbon.

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