Multi-award winning musician, composer academic and arts leader.

Kathryn is a unique, interdisciplinary academic with a creative practice in folk music and theatre. She is lead performer and founder of Shakespearean folk ensemble, and folk dance ensemble, Talon. Kathryn is also a leader in young adult and youth arts, teaching folk and renaissance music at Sydney Conservatorium of Music and at Illawarra Folk Festival. Kathryn is co-founder and lead composer in the youth arts company, Matriark Theatre.

Kathryn has recently returned to Australia after completing a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship at Newcastle University in the UK, researching A Performance History of Morris Dancing. This research has followed on from a PhD at the University of Sydney, where she researched the musical culture of traditional festivals in the British Isles and their representation in Shakespeare’s theatre.

Kathryn is passionate about sustainability in arts practice, and volunteers on the boards of several organisations in Australia.