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Kate Tamarkin joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in the fall of 2006 bringing a background of over twenty years as a professional conductor and educator. She is currently the Music Director of the Charlottesville and University Symphony Orchestra. She has been Music Director of the Monterey Symphony (CA), Vermont Symphony, East Texas Symphony, and the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra (WI). She was also the Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony under the late Eduardo Mata.
Her guest conducting credits include the Shanghai Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, National Symphony of Moldova, and the following US orchestras: Chicago, Houston, St. Louis, Phoenix, Nashville, New Mexico, Oklahoma City, Tucson, Pacific (CA), Eastern Music Festival (NC), and Chicago’s Grant Park Festival. In the fall of 2006 she was a guest conductor for the Peabody Conservatory Opera Theatre’s production of “The Marriage of Figaro”. In June of 2007, she conducted the Washington DC premiere of Mark Adamo’s opera “Little Women” for the Summer Opera Theatre Company.
Ms. Tamarkin has served as an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, as Visiting Associate Professor of Orchestral Studies at the University of Minnesota, and has been on the faculty of the South Carolina Conductor’s Institute and the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute.
Ms Tamarkin holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, a Masters Degree in Orchestral Conducting from Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Chapman University in California. She has been a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute. Her major teachers include Frederik Prausnitz, Bernard Rubenstein, John Koshak, Paul Vermel, and Gustav Meier.
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