Kathryn Brunhaver currently lives in Eugene, OR where she has appeared as a guest artist with Chamber Music Amici, the Oregon Bach Festival, Astoria Music Festival, (Read more) Rogue Valley Symphony, Elsewhere Ensemble, Amore Concert Series, Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Harmonic Laboratory, and as Principal Cello with Orchestra NEXT, among others. She completed a Doctorate in Cello Performance at the University of Oregon in 2017 and was named Outstanding Graduate Performer. As the recipient of the Eugene Symphony Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Kathryn was both a cello section member of the Eugene Symphony from 2013-2017, as well as a cello and chamber music instructor at the U of O Community Music Institute, where she still continues to teach. Kathryn enjoys exploring innovative ways of playing the cello and has earned a reputation for specializing in new music, which has included premiering works for solo vocalizing cellist, as well as composing works for herself. This interest in new music extends across genres and has led her to join two regionally-acclaimed bands—Satori Bob and Halie and the moon. She also performs as a solo singer-songwriter under the name Queen of Cups. Kathryn holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Peabody Institute, where she was the recipient of the Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Orchestral Scholarship and the prestigious Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award, and Master’s degree in Cello Performance and Suzuki Pedagogy from the Cleveland Institute of Music