Kathryn has held academic lectureships at Oxford, Cambridge, and the Royal Academy of Music, where she taught music history and aesthetics, c.1600--present. She has also given masterclasses and lecture-recitals for many societies and institutions, including Oxford, the Royal Academy of Music, the Vancouver International Song Institute, the Victoria Conservatory of Music and the University of British Columbia. An active researcher, she is involved in a number of ongoing performance-led research projects. Since 2010, she has held a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Institute of Musical Research in the School of Advanced Study, University of London, where she is leading the SongArt Performance Research Group: www.songart.co.uk

Trained initially at the Victoria Conservatory of Music and University of Toronto,