Kate Moran  

Baroque Violin 巴羅克小提琴

 

Kate Moran is a versatile musician with extensive experience in classical, contemporary, early, and folk music performances. She studied modern and baroque violin at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and later completed a Master’s degree in performance and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education with a specialism in string pedagogy at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester. Her teacher included baroque violinist Pauline Nobes.  

 

During her studies, Moran was a member of both the Britten-Pears Orchestra and the Britten-Pears Baroque Orchestra. She currently performs on violin and viola with Boldwood, an ensemble dedicated to reviving rarely heard tunes from 18th-century English dance music collections. She is also a member of Piva – The Renaissance Collective, a group of historical instrument makers who perform popular dance and ballad music from the late 16th century. With Piva, she plays violin, recorders, and early capped woodwinds. 

 

Moran previously taught in Manchester schools and on the RNCM Young Strings programme. From 2008 until relocating to Hong Kong, she served as Principal Conductor of the Manchester Youth String Orchestra.