Equally at home on both the Violin and Viola, renowned musician Katharina Kang Litton has been Principal Viola of New York City Ballet since 2018. As a violinist, she has performed as soloist with leading orchestras in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bergen, Baltimore, Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, London, New York and Rio de Janeiro.
Kang Litton grew up in Germany where she studied at the Robert Schumann Musikhochschule Düsseldorf with Rosa Fain from the age of nine. She received her Bachelor and Masters degrees at Manhattan School of Music as a student of Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec, later going on to receive her artist diploma at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Jaime Laredo.
Her illustrious career has included working with such prestigious conductors as Dmitrij Kitajenko, Kirill Petrenko, Christoph Altstadt, Arnold Katz, Alondra de la Parra, and Neemi Jarvi. As a recitalist and chamber musician, she has also collaborated with such artists as Pinchas Zukerman, Midori Goto, Hagai Shaham, Viviane Hagner, Elmar Oliviera, Pavel Gililov, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Timothy Eddy, Franz Helmerson, Philip Setzer and the Schumann Quartet, proving a testament to her versatility and credibility.
In 2020, Kang Litton formed the Litton Duo with her husband, conductor and pianist Andrew Litton. Their highly anticipated first CD recording has been released on the BIS label [BIS-2574].