Dr. Kate Pritchett, instructor of horn, joined the music faculty at Oklahoma City University in 2002. She is a member of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and the Lawton Philharmonic. She has performed regularly with the Dallas Opera Orchestra, the Richardson Symphony Orchestra, the Garland Symphony Orchestra, and the San Angelo Symphony Orchestra. She plays period instruments with early-music groups such as the Orchestra of New Spain, and has played with Colorado’s Greeley Philharmonic and the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra of New Zealand. She earned her DMA and MM in horn performance at the University of North Texas, and her Bachelor of Music from the University of Northern Colorado. She has studied with Bill Scharnberg, Bill Bernatis and Jack Herrick.

She has taught at the University of Texas at Arlington and at Texas Woman’s University, as well as at the University of North Texas as a teaching fellow. In addition to her work at the Bass School of Music, she teaches a private studio of middle and high school students, and works with younger students in clinics and master classes in Texas and Oklahoma.

Dr. Pritchett has performed on several recordings of the University of North Texas Wind Symphony, including a performance with the Newcastle Brass Quintet on Convergence, a CD released in 2001.