Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble

Violinist Katrin Stamatis maintains an active musical career that includes performance, research and pedagogy.

Katrin attended Barnard College, where she was enrolled in the joint program with Manhattan School of Music. As an undergraduate, she was a founding member and President of the Bach Society of Columbia University. She received her Masters Degree from Mannes College of Music in 2004, and her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Oklahoma in 2019. Her primary teachers include Peggy Klinger, Ik-Hwan Bae, and Nina Beilina.

She has played in the Albany Symphony Orchestra, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and the Chelsea Symphony, with whom she was featured as soloist in the Brahms Double Concerto. She has performed throughout the world, including performances in Fontainebleau, France, Venice, Italy, and throughout Puerto Rico. She has performed extensively in her native New York City, at venues such as Weill Recital Hall, the Tenri Institute, Museum of Arts and Design and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

A devoted pedagogue, Katrin has been on the faculty of the Calhoun School, the Larchmont Music Academy, and was a visiting professor of violin and viola at Drake University in 2009-10.  Currently, she maintains a private studio in Norman, OK. In the summers, she teaches and performs at the Fresno Orchestra Summer Academy in Fresno, CA, and is a member of the faculty of the Summer String Academy at the University of Oklahoma.

Katrin is currently principal second violin of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and is a member of Brightmusic, a chamber music group based in Oklahoma City.

She lives in Norman, OK with her husband, cellist Jonathan Ruck and their two daughters, Arianna and Galia.