Katie Yap

Based between Naarm/Melbourne and Nipaluna/Hobart, Katie is known for her deeply personal performances as modern and baroque violist; and a flair for thoughtful, narrative-driven programs as a curator. She was the 2022 Freedman Fellow, a 2023-4 Musica Viva Australia FutureMaker, a 2024-5 ANAM/Ian Potter Emerging Performer Fellow, a 2025-6 Van Diemen’s Band Curation Fellow, and was the founding Artistic Director of 3MBS’ festival ‘Music, She Wrote’.

She plays with an array of chamber music groups, including the Gryphon Baryton Trio, synth/harpsichord & viola duo Bronzewing, and Wattleseed Ensemble, and with Australia’s top orchestras, from Van Diemen’s Band and the Orchestra of the Antipodes to the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

In her spare time, she is apprenticed in the fine arts of Hainanese chicken rice and Dutch apple tart; and loves to watch turbo chooks chase each other down near the Newtown Rivulet.