Kathryn Moorhead
Kathryn Moorhead is an Australian flautist based in Adelaide, where she teaches flute at the University of Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium of Music and the Open Music Academy, and freelances as an orchestral and chamber musician.
Between 2005 and 2022 Kathryn worked in New Zealand as Associate Principal Flute with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and taught flute at the University of Auckland. She has also played with many orchestras, among them the Melbourne, Adelaide, Queensland, Tasmanian and Netherlands Symphony Orchestras, the Hong Kong and Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestras, the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra, and Orchestra Victoria.
She has performed at international arts festivals in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Aberdeen and London, and has toured New Zealand with the Koru Wind Quintet for Chamber Music NZ. As a recitalist she has appeared at the National Flute Association Convention in Washington DC and at the Australian Flute Festival. She has served on juries for the NFA Orchestral Audition Competition in the USA, the Australian Young Artist Competition and the Leslie Barklamb Scholarship.
Kathryn completed Bachelor and Masters degrees at the University of Melbourne and, with a scholarship from the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, undertook postgraduate study with Andreas Blau of the Berlin Philharmonic, Leon Berendse of the Netherlands Philharmonic and Harrie Starreveld at the Amsterdam Conservatorium. She holds a PhD in Music from the University of Adelaide, where she received the Dean’s Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence.
Kathryn Moorhead is featured on the following titles
Shifting Landscapes
Shifting Landscapes is Australian flautist Kathryn Moorhead’s survey of the flute’s contemporary sound world, gathering works that push the instrument past its familiar range through extended technique, colour, and texture.
Miscellany for Flute and Harp
Throughout history composers have been drawn to the flute and harp pairing, from the shepherd’s pan-pipes and Orphean lyre of ancient Arcadia to the French court of Marie-Antoinette and Mozart’s duo concerto for the two instruments.
Quiet Place
Each of the eleven tracks is a song without words. Written over a number of years, these pieces by Andrew Blyth share a concern for simplicity and directness of expression throughout the set.
Unearthly Music: Music by Australian Women Composers
A tribute to twentieth-century Australian women composers, this flute and piano recital gathers lesser-known chamber works in the hope that listeners, performers and programmers will bring the music to a wider audience.