Katelyn Petersen

Cello

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Katelyn Petersen is a San Antonian cellist and composer in DFW, teaching both piano and cello. She began studying music at age 3 through the suzuki piano method for 12 years as well as violin for 3 years. She had transitioned to cello shortly after violin and has continued to study and perform for nearly 15 years, following her grandmother who was a respected professor of piano, cello, and theory, as well as a composer, and principal cello of several orchestras in Michigan.

 

Katelyn has attended the Interlochen Summer Intensive, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, and toured Europe with the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio. She obtained her Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance and Music Composition from Southern Methodist University and plans to further

explore collaborative projects in order to reach her goal of unifying artists and audiences under interdisciplinary art. She has explored many musical genres on cello including classical, jazz, contemporary, pop, rock, indie, improvisation, and electronics.

She has studied cello under Kenneth Freudigman, Andrés Díaz, and Christopher Adkins. In composition, her teachers have included Xi Wang, Lane Harder, and Robert Frank. A unique quality in her music, as well as her self-taught visual art, is her synesthesia, in which she is able to experience multiple senses triggered by sound, visuals, physical touch, tastes, and smells. 

 

 

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