Violinist Katherine Button graduated from Stanford University with
Distinction and Honors in Music, where her chamber music coaches were
David Abel and Bonnie Hampton of the Francesco Trio. She has also
studied at Mills College, the Royal College of Music in London, England,
and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
She has been a member of the San Jose and Columbus (Ohio) Symphonies, and now free-lances in the Bay Area, performing the past several seasons on a contract with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra.
Also a baroque violinist, Katherine has been heard on the First Pres concert series with her period instrument group, Airs and Graces.
This summer will mark her ninth year playing in the Berrow Chamber Music Festival in Somerset, England.
She lives in Alameda with her husband, son, and too many cats.