Kathryn Mosley (Ngati Maniapoto) was born in New Zealand. For a number of years London was home, and during that time Kathryn was active as a soloist, appearing with orchestras in both New Zealand and the United Kingdom. She is in demand as a recitalist and duo partner, performing in the United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, the USA and throughout Europe in venues as diverse as Club Inégales and The Purcell Room on London’s Southbank. Her work has covered a wide range of repertoire, from early songs to newly commissioned works, and she is the proud dedicatee of three works by New Zealand composers, Prelude by Nigel Keay, and Lull and School of Velocity by Warwick Blair.

She has broadcast on a number of occasions on Radio New Zealand. Kathryn’s recording of the Sonata for Piano and Cello by Walter Macfarren with British cellist Joseph Spooner on Dutton Epoch attracted warm critical attention, with her playing being singled out for its vivacity (Gramophone), vigour and conviction (International Record Review), and great sensitivity and skill (My Reviewer).  In spring 2016, Kathryn and Joseph toured for Chamber Music New Zealand. More recent collaborations have included the Iota and Korimako Ensembles, and her sister, NZSO cellist Eleanor Mosley.

In addition to her work as a performer, education has always been a passion. While in London Kathryn taught in a number of institutions, including the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music and Brighton and Hatcham Colleges, producing students who had the skills to be prize winners in the BBC Young Musicians Competition and successful as graduates of The Brit School. She is currently Head of Collaborative Piano at the New Zealand School of Music – Te Kókí, Victoria, University of Wellington, where she is overseeing the development of a course of Collaborative study for the piano students, introducing them to the repertoire and giving them the skills and experience required to work with flexibility in the musical world as collaborators with instrumentalists, recording artists, ballet pianists, and répétiteurs.

Kathryn is an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, examining at both grade and diploma levels worldwide, both as a classical and jazz examiner. She is in regular demand as an adjudicator both nationally and internationally. She has given lectures and masterclasses at Goldsmiths University of London, the Royal Academy of Music London, the Royal College of Music London, Queen’s University Belfast, Dublin City University, the University of Leeds, Steinway Hall London, the University of Auckland, and the University of Waikato.

Events with literary associations are a particular interest. A 2014 concert at the New Zealand Embassy in Paris with cellist Joseph Spooner as part of the International conference organized by the Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Katherine Mansfield Society was the beginning of an extended project exploring Mansfield’s love of music and her association with the cellist Arnold Trowell. A further participation in intercultural approaches included a recital of works by Bach at a reading by the South African author and Nobel prize winner JM Coetzee as part of Coetzee & the Archive Conference at Senate House, London in 2017.

It was the award of a scholarship from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music that took Kathryn to London after undergraduate study at the University of Auckland with Tamas Vesmas, and she earned a master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music. Tutors there included Hamish Milne, Geoffrey Parsons, Michael Dussek, and members of the Amadeus Quartet. A PhD from the University of London followed for her thesis The Cadenzas to Beethoven’s Piano Concertos: Compositional Processes and Early Performance Traditions.