Katherine Cash
School of Music Faculty
Faculty Lesson Instructor
VIOLIN
Katherine Cash, Canadian-born violinist, Juilliard graduate (B.M., M.M.), USC (Global Executive MBA), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Global Executive MBA), General Securities Registered Representative (Series 7), arranger, composer, music director and educator, performs solo and chamber music in concert, for television, recordings, films, TV, games and for major vocal artists. Katherine has been concertmaster of the New York Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and the New York Symphonic Ensemble, as well as many Broadway shows. Highlights of when she lived in Japan, were performing as violin soloist with the Nagoya Philharmonic on national television; as soloist in concert with regional symphony orchestras; solo and chamber recordings on NHK national television; and touring the country in a piano trio with renowned composer-pianist Joe Hisaishi. She was active in the recording studios as both a violinist and as an arranger.
For a number of years, Katherine was Artist in Residence at St. John’s Cathedral in LA and at St. James Episcopal Church in Newport Beach with her N2K Duo (with Norm Freeman, Juilliard B.M., M.M.), the first professional violin-vibraphone duo in the world, and concertized extensively throughout the States, in addition to performances in Canada and Asia. Katherine is often invited to perform as an unaccompanied soloist for special events, and can be heard as the solo violinist on recordings at Capitol Studios as well as private studios in LA. She is a member of the Mozart Classical Orchestra and is conductor for the Irvine Young Concert Artists string orchestra. Her growing catalogue of arrangements includes pieces for N2K Duo, string trios, string quartets, youth orchestras (recorded in LA for movie film scores), church services, children’s educational material and for solo violin. Katherine’s joint composition with Rich Cook, Missa Resurrexit, was premiered in 2013, with subsequent performances in the US and in Switzerland; the Santiago Canyon College commissioned Katherine to compose a song for choir and full orchestra; she was commissioned to arrange all the works for one of the pair of Eric Law’s “Cycle of Blessings” CD’s, and performed all the violin parts.
Katherine continues to utilize her USC Executive MBA as President of Neurobotics neurobotics.co.jp.