A co-founder of the former Da Vinci Quartet in 1980, Katharine Knight has performed across the United States, as well as in Russia, England and Canada. She has recorded extensively; and, with abundant teaching credits to her name, is also a veteran of many international competitions.

Growing up in a family of artists, actors and writers, cellist Katharine Knight found her muse when she fell in love with the cello at age 10. A native of Baltimore, she attended the Peabody Institute where she studied with a succession of proteges of the great Russian cellist, Gregor Piatigorsky - principally Stephen Kates and Laurence Lesser, whom she followed to the New England Conservatory in Boston for graduate studies. She received a Master of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she served as teaching assistant to Wolfgang Laufer, cellist of the Fine Arts Quartet.

In addition to her near quarter century with the Da Vinci Quartet, Ms. Knight performs regularly as a recitalist, guest artist with other chamber ensembles, and as a member of Hot Celli - a duo with husband and fellow cellist, Richard Slavich.

Ms. Knight joined the music faculty of the Colorado College in 1999 as cello instructor, and is a member of the chamber music faculty at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music. Since 2007, as Director of Career Development, she has counseled students and designed programs to enhance their ability to create meaningful lives in music.

She plays a 1997 cello made by the husband and wife team Joseph Grubaugh and Sigrun Seifert.