Kate Ransom, violinist, enjoys a busy professional life of distinction which includes an active schedule of performances as chamber musician and recitalist. She has presented concerts throughout the United States, and in Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Devoted to organizational advancement of music schools, she has held executive positions at collegiate and community music schools since 1990, and is currently President and CEO of The Wilmington Music School/Delaware Music School, a position she has held since 1999.

Since 2001, she has been violinist with the Serafin String Quartet (which has received critical acclaim in the press and actively performs in locations throughout the United States). Prior to her work with the Serafins, Ms. Ransom also received high praise in the New York Times for her debut violin recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and she was a founding and six-year member of the internationally acclaimed Alexander String Quartet.

In addition to her work with the Serafin String Quartet, Ms. Ransom frequently collaborates with other artists and has presented chamber music concerts with founding cellist of the Tokyo Quartet, Sadao Harada, with internationally acclaimed guitarist Eliot Fisk, and with members of the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, the Atlanta and National Symphonies, the Empire Brass Quintet, and with the Lark, Ciompi, Blair and Vega String Quartets.

Ms. Ransom’s performances include those in major chamber music concert halls around the world, including New York’s Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Symphony Space and at Lincoln Center; at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Teatro Real in Madrid; Wigmore Hall and the Warwick Gallery in London; and in Washington, D.C. at the Library of Congress.

Kate Ransom is a regular guest artist at the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival in North Carolina and has participated in numerous other festivals (including Garth Newel, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Norfolk Festival, Fanfare Festival, and others). She currently teaches violin at Lehigh University, and has been a visiting faculty member at University of Delaware, State University of New York-Potsdam, St. Lawrence University, Brevard College, Rutgers University and often presents concerts, lecture-recitals and master classes at colleges and universities, having visited scores of locations around the country in this capacity.

Ms. Ransom earned degrees from Yale School of Music (M.M., 1981) and University of Michigan School of Music (B.M., magna cum laude, 1979), and pursued post-graduate chamber music studies at The Juilliard School. She was a violin student of Paul Makanowitzky, Szymon Goldberg and Ivan Galamian and a chamber music protégé of the Tokyo String Quartet. She has been featured on WQXR (New York), Radio London, Radio France, and National Public Radio. Her recording credits include those on Gallo and CRI Records, and, most recently, a recording of works for oboe and strings, Under A Near Sky on the Klavier label. Ms. Ransom plays a violin made in 1728 by the Venetian master, Sanctus Serafin.

“Impassioned…the [Ransom/Sirianni] Duo played with considerable flair…a beautifully regulated account of the Brahms…a suitably misty and dark Debussy…Mozart’s Sonata benefited from a clear articulation and unity of purpose.”-- The New York Times

“Every note was played so well, every nuance so worked out, that the event was almost like listening to a flawless recording.” - The Nashville Tennessean