Katherine Winterstein is the concertmaster of the Vermont Symphony, the associate concertmaster of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and she is co-concertmaster of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. In recent seasons she has performed as concertmaster of the Palm Beach Opera, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and also performs regularly with the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, and A Far Cry. She was a member of the Hartt String Quartet, the Providence-based Aurea Ensemble, and the summer of 2022 was her 21st with the Craftsbury Chamber Players of Vermont. She has also performed with Boston-based Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Radius Ensemble, and Dinosaur Annex, as well as with members of the Lydian and Ciompi String Quartets, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas, and as faculty at Point Counterpoint. She has appeared as soloist with several orchestras including the the Vermont Symphony, the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, the Charlottesville Symphony, the Champlain Philharmonic, and the Boston Virtuosi. She served on the performance faculty of Middlebury College in Vermont from 2002-2015, joined the faculty of the Hartt School of Music in September of 2011, and began teaching at Brown University in September of 2015. Ms. Winterstein lives in Boston with her son, Gus.

Ms. Winterstein plays on a 1779 J.B. Guadagnini violin, on generous loan to her from Mr. William P. Herbst of Montpelier, VT.