Katrin Meidell. Violist.

Violist Katrin Meidell, DMA, enjoys a prolific career as a performer, pedagogue, and lecturer. Her diverse abilities have taken her across the USA, to Canada, Finland, Austria, Poland, Brazil, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. A strong proponent of new music, she consistently premieres works commissioned by and written for her. In addition to frequent solo and orchestral engagements, she performs chamber music on a regular basis, often with Violet, of which she is a founding member with Dr. Elizabeth Crawford, clarinet. Their self-titled debut album, Violet, was released on Albany Records in 2019. In the orchestral setting, she has performed with the Indianapolis and Fort Worth Symphonies, the Fort Wayne and Boston Philharmonics, and freelance orchestras throughout Georgia, Indiana, Texas, and Oklahoma.

Meidell has been published in the Journal of the American Viola Society and American String Teacher, and was a proud Board Member for the American Viola Society from 2016-2022. In June 2022 she hosted and coordinated the 2022 American Viola Society Festival & 47th International Viola Congress at the Schwob School of Music.

She is a Karen Tuttle Coordination pedagogue, with recent master class engagements at the International Viola Congress (Netherlands), the Poznań International Viola Forum (Poland), Boston University, the University of North Texas, West Virginia University, Illinois State University, University of Tennessee, and the University of Northern Colorado.

She worked for six years in a Harvard neuroscience lab, studying the brains of musicians. More recently, she focused on Music and Medicine, a field in which she has worked towards finding a comprehensive answer to why string players are prone to injury. She regularly presents these findings and other pedagogical sessions at regional, national, and international conferences.

Meidell holds degrees from Boston University, New England Conservatory, and the University of North Texas, where her viola teachers were Michelle LaCourse, Carol Rodland, and Dr. Susan Dubois. Before switching from violin to viola in 2001, she studied violin with Geda Khatutskaya and Dana Mazurkevich. Dr. Meidell is Associate Professor of Viola the Schwob School of Music, Columbus State University. Previously she taught at Ball State University, Texas Tech University, and Texas Woman’s University.

When not working, she enjoys outdoor activities and knitting.