A B O U T

Dr. Kathryn Vetter is an internationally award-winning clarinetist based in New York City. She performed at the 66th Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea during La Biennale di Venezia, where she was awarded “Best Performance.” As a soloist, she won the 2018 Contemporary Performance Competition at the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Cortona, Italy and has performed solo recitals in Ireland and across the United States. As an orchestral musician, she performs with the Fort Greene Orchestra and has previously performed with Teatro Grattacielo, New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers, Juilliard Lab Orchestra, Painted Sky Opera, Ohio Light Opera, Oklahoma Festival Ballet, and Norman Philharmonic.

Kathryn is the founding clarinetist of Sputter Box, a clarinet, voice, percussion ensemble and Nu Quintet, a wind quintet. Sputter Box has commissioned over eighty works for their unique instrumentation and has toured across the US. Nu Quintet was an Artist Ensemble for Chamber Music Society’s Chamber Music Beginnings program where they worked with students across New York City’s five boroughs. As a freelance chamber and solo musician, Kathryn has also performed with Contemporaneous, infraSound, and Collide-O-Scope Music.

Dr. Vetter currently teaches clarinet at William Paterson University, clarinet, music theory, and ear training at Mannes Prep at The New School, and a private studio of clarinet, saxophone, and flute students. Previously, she was an Adjunct Music Professor at Five Towns College (2021-2025), the sabbatical replacement Professor of Clarinet for Dr. Suzanne Tirk at the University of Oklahoma (2022), and maternity-leave replacement for Dr. Tirk at the University of Oklahoma (2016). Dr. Vetter was awarded with the OU Provost's Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (2018).

Kathryn earned her doctorate of musical arts in clarinet performance at Stony Brook University. She earned her master’s degrees in clarinet performance and music theory from the University of Oklahoma and a bachelor’s in music education from Michigan State University. Her primary teachers include Alan Kay, Dr. Suzanne Tirk, Dr. Guy Yehuda, Ted Oien, Dr. Caroline Hartig, and Sarah Bednarcik on classical clarinet and Dr. Derrick Newbold on jazz clarinet and saxophone. Originally from New Jersey, Kathryn now resides in Brooklyn.

Education

DMA in Clarinet Performance: Stony Brook University

MM in Clarinet Performance: University of Oklahoma

MM in Music Theory: University of Oklahoma

BM in Music Education: Michigan State University