Katherine Young (musician)

Katherine Young is an American bassoonist and composer. She released her solo album Further Secret Origins in 2009 and is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. She is also a professor at Emory University. Biography Katherine Young studied classical music with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Carl Nitchie, She later obtained her MA in Composition from Wesleyan University, where she studied under Anthony Braxton, her doctoral dissertation is Nothing Is as It Appears: Anthony Braxton’s Trillium J. Young’s music involves electroacoustic music and sonic art, and she also plays as a bassoonist in her work. Tamzin Elliott of San Francisco Classical Voice said of Young: “Her vocabulary of string techniques — bowing on the body of the instrument, grinding the bow into the string, playing behind the bridge, etc. — was markedly uniform between the pieces, to the point where I wondered about the intentionality of this similarity.” She later did another album in 2012, Pretty Monsters, for her quartet of the same name. Young said that solo recordings are “brutal”, noting they leave her with only a sound engineer to record with. Originally teaching at Berklee College of Music and the School of the Art Instit