Katherine began her training at the junior department of Trinity College of Music, where she studied voice and composition and was the recipient of the Chappell Prize for Composition. She went on to obtain her bachelor's degree from Leeds College of Music, receiving the Michael Grady Composition award upon graduating. She was later awarded the Douglas and Hilda Simmons Scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music and graduated with a masters degree in Composition for Screen in 2011. Katherine was selected for the SPNM Composer Shortlist 2008-2011 and featured on Sound and Music's British Music Collection.

She has since scored award winning animations, documentaries and short films, including the powerful documentary Hear Our Voices (director Khurrum Mahmood), shown at the first meeting of the Global Counter-terrorism Forum in New York and a short film for Aston Martin. She has collaborated with the poet and director Chrys Salt MBE, setting her works Baghdad 2003 and Seascape to music.

Theatre work includes singing in Titus Andronicus (RSC 2017) & The Comedy of Errors (Dep, RSC 2021), Music Director for Shakespeare’s Globe’s Measure for Measure (Shakespeare’s Globe 2021), Associate Music Director for Richard III (RSC 2022), All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC 2022), Music Director for O’ Island! (RSC Mischief Festival 2022) and Associate Music Director for A Christmas Carol (RSC 2022), Julius Caesar (2023) and Music Associate for Macbeth (2023). She is currently the Music Director for RSC’s 2024 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor.

She has also composed the music for Hannah Khalil and Chris White’s play The Wood of Words: In Every Leaf for the RSC’s Playmaking Festival 2023 and is composing for Henry Darke’s play Chippy directed by Chris White, touring in 2024.

Katherine is a certified Estill Master Trainer and has trained extensively as a vocalist through the Estill Voice Model. She works internationally as a recording artist and has performed in world famous concert venues and theatres including the Royal Albert Hall, the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, the Barbican, Ronnie Scott's, Carnegie Hall and Kaohsiung City Concert Hall, Taiwan. 

Katherine is frequently sought after in arts education for voice and creative music workshops, pre-concert talks and community education projects including work with Glyndebourne Education, Royal College of Music, Pegasus Opera, IntoUniversity, HMDT, Pro Corda and City of London Festival. She is passionate about inclusivity in education and has qualified with a Level 2 BSL certificate from the Institute of British Sign Language.