Jazz historian Leonard Feather once said, Katrina Wreede has "extemporaneous mastery rate, perhaps unique, in the annals of the viola." A prize-winning composer and former violist with Turtle Island String Quartet, she has dedicated her career to expanding stylistic boundaries and helping position the often maligned viola in its rightful place as a profoundly expressive instrument capable of evoking the totality of human emotion. Wreede's Add Viola and Stir is a satisfyingly complex sampling of those adventures.
Katrina Wreede's "California Eclectic" style ranges from chamber music and dance music, to orchestral works. Her works have been performed by the Chamber Orchestra of Boston, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, the Ahn Trio, Pegasus Quartet, San Jose Quartet, Turtle Island String Quartet, Colorado Chamber Players, violist Karen Elaine, Mill Valley Philharmonic, Axis Dance Company, David Parsons Dance Company, Argentina's Orchestra Rosario, and soon the Northern California Viola Society. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she also travels around the country with her unique interactive education workshops: "My Goldfish Died – Blues for Strings," and "Composing Together."
Katrina Wreede's works might fall into many categories, but they are all full of humor, with an occasional tinge of melancholy or twist of attitude – just like the viola itself.
Katrina Wreede
Biography
Jazz historian Leonard Feather once said, Katrina Wreede has "extemporaneous mastery rate, perhaps unique, in the annals of the viola." A prize-winning composer and former violist with Turtle Island String Quartet, she has dedicated her career to expanding stylistic boundaries and helping position the often maligned viola in its rightful place as a profoundly expressive instrument capable of evoking the totality of human emotion. Wreede's Add Viola and Stir is a satisfyingly complex sampling of those adventures.
Katrina Wreede's "California Eclectic" style ranges from chamber music and dance music, to orchestral works. Her works have been performed by the Chamber Orchestra of Boston, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, the Ahn Trio, Pegasus Quartet, San Jose Quartet, Turtle Island String Quartet, Colorado Chamber Players, violist Karen Elaine, Mill Valley Philharmonic, Axis Dance Company, David Parsons Dance Company, Argentina's Orchestra Rosario, and soon the Northern California Viola Society. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she also travels around the country with her unique interactive education workshops: "My Goldfish Died – Blues for Strings," and "Composing Together."
Katrina Wreede's works might fall into many categories, but they are all full of humor, with an occasional tinge of melancholy or twist of attitude – just like the viola itself.