Cate Howard

Cate Howard has studied and played the violin since the age of six. A graduate of the University of Witwatersrand School of Music, Cate continued postgraduate studies with Jascha Brodsky (Temple University, Philadelphia) and Igor Ozim (Musikhochschule Köln, Germany). She has performed and taught extensively in the US (Settlement Music School Philadelphia, New England Conservatory Preparatory School Boston, String Arts School of Concord), South Africa, Tanzania (Umoja Music School), Germany (Musikschule Marburg) and in the UK. Cate is a certified Suzuki teacher with both the SAA and BSMA. In 2008, she published her first book 'How the Violin Plays the Violinist'.

Currently, Cate is a Lecturer of Violin/Viola at the Junior Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, a Tutor for the Benedetti Foundation, and she directs the Galloway Violin Studio, Castle Douglas Scotland.