Katherine Hunka
London born violinist Katherine Hunka has performed frequently at The Wigmore Hall, The Royal Albert Hall and The South Bank Centre in London.
She has played a wide repertoire of concertos with orchestras including the City of London Sinfonia, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, which she led for the 1990-1991 season, and the Britten Pears Orchestra as winner of their concerto competition. She gave the world première of Britten’s Double Concerto with violinist Philip Dukes at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1997. An Irish tour in 2005 featured the Bruch Violin Concerto with the RTE Concert Orchestra. Katherine also made her debút with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland in 2005 performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Appointed Leader of the Irish Chamber Orchestra in 2002, Katherine regularly directs from the leader’s chair. In autumn 2004 she performed double concertos with Nigel Kennedy as part of a fifteen concert tour of Ireland and the U.K. and in 2005 premiered a new Double Concerto by the Irish composer Raymond Deane. A member of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, she has guest-led the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. She plays a Bernard Fendt violin made in 1832.