(2006) Young Musicians Program Director; Chamber Music Coordinator. Katrina Wreede, award-winning composer and violist, promotes joyful, student-centered music experiences to develop the skills and solid musicianship so anyone to discover their own unique voice in music.

Besides creating the Composing Together and My Goldfish Died-Blues for Strings programs, Wreede was founding faculty of the John Adams Young Composer Program at the Crowden School and an accredited Teaching Artist for the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission. She has conducted training for music teachers with the American String Teachers Association, the Montana String Teachers Association, Bronxville Unified School District, San Francisco Unified School District, and Nevada County School District. Katie is also Coordinator for CMC’s Young Musicians Program and Adult Chamber Music Program as well as Director for Camp CMC, the summer camp for young musicians between ages 9-13.

As a performer, she has been a professional symphony musician, a member of the Turtle Island String Quartet, a concert soloist, a strolling, rhinestone-studded “alto violinist” for royalty, a student of Tango Nuevo, Persian, and Roma music and a composer and performer for chamber ensembles, orchestras, silent film, and dance. Currently, she performs as the viola half of the string duo, Bollywood California, playing their own arrangements of Bollywood and Indian pop music. Her solo CD of original jazz and classical works, “Add Viola and Stir”, is heard world-wide on radio and streaming sites. More info at: katrinawreede.com or bollywood-california.com