Kathryn Vetter
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, Kathryn won the 2018 Cortona Sessions Contemporary Performance Competition in Cortona, Italy, and has performed solo recitals in Ireland and across the United States. As an orchestral musician, she has performed with the Fort Greene Orchestra, Teatro Grattacielo, New York Philharmonic Very Young Composers, Juilliard Lab Orchestra, Painted Sky Opera, Oklahoma Festival Ballet, and Norman Philharmonic. As a woodwind doubler, she has performed with the Ohio Light Opera and is a member of Maestra.
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 the US. Nu Quintet was an Artist Ensemble for Chamber Music Society’s Chamber Music Beginnings program (2025) where they worked with students across New York City’s five boroughs. As a freelance chamber musician, Kathryn has also performed with Contemporaneous, infraSound, and Collide-O-Scope Music.
Kathryn currently teaches clarinet at William Paterson University, clarinet, music theory, and ear training at Mannes Prep–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 Visiting Professor of Clarinet at the University of Oklahoma (2022), and the maternity-leave replacement for Dr. Suzanne Tirk at the University of Oklahoma (2016). Kathryn was awarded the OU Provost’s Certificate of Distinction in Teaching award (2018). Since 2013, she has taught early childhood music classes for students ages 0-7 years. Her students have successfully auditioned into Juilliard Pre-College, Manhattan School of Music Pre-College, Mannes Prep, Harvard University, University of North Texas, Florida State University, and other colleges.
Kathryn completed her doctorate in clarinet performance at Stony Brook University, master’s degrees in clarinet performance and music theory at the University of Oklahoma, and her bachelor’s in music education at Michigan State University. Originally from New Jersey, she now resides in Brooklyn, New York.