KATE OWEN, is a multi-dimensional musician whose expansive talents span several musical disciplines, making her one of the most versatile and innovative performers and educators of her generation. Ms. Owen is an accomplished cellist, soprano, producer, professor, vocal coach, choral director, and organist. She is also co-founder, principal cellist and Executive Director of Camerata New York chamber orchestra in New York City (founded in 1999 in Vienna, Austria, re-established in New York in 2000). Ms. Owen has appeared in the most prestigious concert venues, such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and has performed on internationally, both as a soloist and in ensemble. Ms. Owen has successfully organized and performed concerts, operas, dance and choral presentations to critical acclaim in some of the foremost venues in the world including Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern and Zankel Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, St. Jean Baptiste Church, Theatre at St. Jean, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Joyce Theater, as well as music festivals throughout the New York Tri-State area. In the past few years, she has expanded her musical footprint to include celebrated appearances on both the east and west coast of Florida.

Ms. Owen has produced concerts in collaboration with renowned artists such as soprano Aprile Milo, tenor James Valenti, actor Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live saxophonist Alex Foster, cellist Nathaniel Rosen, NY Philharmonic principal harpist Nancy Allen, as well as principal flute Robert Langevin, sopranos Katherine Whyte and Amy Shoremount-Obra; dancers from Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, Harlem School of the Arts; young soloists from The New School, Manhattan School of Music, and recently with Highbridge Voices.

Ms. Owen made her operatic debut in 2015 as the Mother in G. Menotti’s timeless masterpiece Amahl and The Night Visitors. In 2019, she collaborated with world-renowned Saturday Night Live’s solo sax player, Alex Foster. The excerpts of this performance can be viewed online: 15min. version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTcnQBB9ZOA&t=1s 4min.  version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk5vDpCu3RM. Ms. Owen was the featured vocal soloist and actress in the film ‘Worth’, starring Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci among others, and recorded ‘Ave Maria’ by F. Schubert. https://youtube/XYmWzyfKm0w She appeared in the hit series “Bull”, “Succession”, and was a featured vocalist in the Netflix’ Series “Queen’s Gambit”. 

Graduate of the F. Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, she continued her musical studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. Ms. Owen also received a Teaching Degree from the Interfaculty Pedagogical Studies in Warsaw, Poland.  

From 2022-2024 Ms. Owen was on the faculty of Ave Maria University (Voice and Strings). From 2004-2009, Ms. Owen was the Music Director of the Columbia University Glee Club Chorus, where she conducted numerous performances of diverse repertoire. In 2003, Camerata New York Chorus, founded by Ms. Owen was invited to open the Mid-America Season at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Owen was also the Director of Music of several Roman Catholic Churches in NY. 

Ms. Owen has had a busy international career as soloist, principal cellist and chamber musician. She has given numerous concerts in the United States, Poland, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Austria. Ms. Owen was principal cellist of various orchestras in Poland, including the ‘Collegium Varsoviense’ and ‘Modern Academy’ in Warsaw and the ‘Bialystok Chamber Orchestra’ (1st prize cum laude in the International Music Festival in Nerpeelt, Belgium). In 1997-9, she was principal cellist of the Ost-West Internationale Jugend Sinfonie Orchester at the International Music Festival in Altenburg, Germany, where she met her future husband, Mr. Richard Owen, Jr. She has participated in many cello interpretation courses lead by Victoria Yagling (Finland), Angelika May (Austria), and Tomasz Herbut (Switzerland), Wanda Glowacka (USA). Ms. Owen’s discography includes many orchestral CD recordings with ensembles in Europe and the United States. Conductors with whom Ms. Owen has worked include K. Penderecki, J. Maksymiuk, M. J. Blaszczyk, A. Witt, A. Duczmal, J. Kasprzyk, T. Wojciechowski, H. Handt, D. Kram, R. Owen, Jr., D. Gilbert, G. Cortese, K. Rapf, G. Ortega, M. Spearman, M. Shapiro, B. Hoffman, A. Aibel, J. Somary, Dr. F. Jimenez and Felix Carrasco Cordova. Also an active free-lance musician, Ms. Owen has played at the Westchester Broadway Theater, 2001 Wagner Workshop Symphony Orchestra at Mannes College, Bronx Opera, Chappaqua Orchestra, The Westchester Chamber Orchestra, New York Concert Opera and The AmorArtis Orchestra, the Ives Festival Orchestra at the WCSU in Danbury, CT. From 2002-4, Ms. Owen was a principal cello-mentor in the Westchester Conservatory for the Performing Arts Mentoring Orchestra in White Plains. She was a member of the faculty of Bramson’s School of Music in Mount Kisco, NY.

Ms. Owen speaks Polish, Russian, Italian, German, French, and Greek. In her leisure time, she enjoys sailing, gardening, oil painting, and beekeeping. Ms. Owen is honored to have been the last female painted by the master portraitist Raymond Everett Kinstler (see above left).