Kate Goddard

Kate Goddard is a New York-based multi-instrumentalist. An avid chamber musician, she is a founding member of Xanthoria Quartet, violist of New York Classical Quartet, and plays period violin in Cramer Quartet. This season she has collaborated with soprano Julianne Baird, the sleaze-pop outfit Tredici Bacci, Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós, and has toured with indie darlings the Ophelias. As a period performer she has appeared with Early Music New York, American Classical Orchestra, Providence Baroque Orchestra, Yale Schola Cantorum under David Hill, the American Handel Society at Princeton University under John Butt, and the Historical Keyboard Society of North America with fortepianist Andrew Willis. Beyond classical music, she has played with Michael Bublé, Josh Groban, Roger Daltry, The Neighbourhood, Evanescence, Disturbed, Michael Bolton, and Andrea Bocelli, with recent performances at Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Beacon Theater, Kings Theater, Forest Hills Stadium, Madison Square Garden, SXSW, and The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.