The musician and teacher, who had a solo career encompassing Europe, the US and the Seychelles, was 54 years old
The Welsh cellist Kate Price died on 27 June at the age of 54. She was a respected soloist in both the UK and US, and the first person to hold the National Welsh American Foundation Scholarship on both sides of the Atlantic.
Born in 1969, Kathryn Price studied the cello with Lynn Harrell at the Piatigorsky Studio in Los Angeles, as well as privately with William Pleeth in London. She also attended Pleeth’s cello masterclasses at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh for three years. She gave her Wigmore Hall debut in 1998, after which The Strad wrote: ‘On the strength of this recital, Price seems destined for greatness.’ She followed this debut with concert tours of the US, Spain and the Seychelles, as well as broadcasts in the US and UK. In 1998 six new works were commissioned for her by arts institutions in England and Wales, and she gave the world premiere of George Lloyd’s Cello Concerto in New York, which was broadcast live. She was also an ambassador for the arts for Wales.
In later life Price lived in St Arvan’s, near Chepstow. She performed on a 1705 cello by Francesco Rugeri, with a John Stagg bow. She also owned an instrument by Giovanni Battista Gabrielli.
Listen to Kathryn Price performing Fauré’s Après un Rêve at the Jacqueline du Pré Hall, St Hilda’s College, Oxford:
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