Livolsi-Landau, Katherine

She is a free-lance violinist also credited as Katherine Livolsi an Katherine Livolsi-Stern who has had a very busy career as an orchestral musician with various orchestras in the New York area as well as regularly performing in Broadway productions.

Some of the orchestras she has performed with during her career to date include the American Symphony Orchestra, New York Pops and Queens Symphony. She has also been a member of the crossover ensemble known as The Pit Stop Players who are mainly musicians from the Broadway pit orchestras.

Her career as a Broadway musician has seen her performing on countless productions since the late 1980s such as Cabaret in 1987, Chess in 1988, Legs Diamond in 1989, Meet Me in St. Louis in 1990, Les Miserables in 2002, La Boheme in 2003, The Light in the Piazza in 2006, Lovemusik in 2007, South Pacific in 2008, Wonderland in 2011 and Evita in 2012.

Somehow during all her work on Broadway an with various orchestras she has also managed to work as a session musician in the studio with artists such as Michael Amante, Ashley Brown, Betty Buckley, Regina Carter, Dream Theater, Melissa Errico, Nancy LaMott, Elaine Paige, Mandy Patinkin, Rihanna, Dawn Upshaw, Amy Winehouse and many more.

This has led to her racking up a list of recordings with just a few of them including Duets II by Tony Bennett, Songs I Heard by Harry Connick Jr., North by Elvis Costello, One Wish: The Holiday Album by Whitney Houston, All My Life by Billy Joel, Before Me by Gladys Knight, At Last by Cyndi Lauper, Never Been Gone by Carly Simon, Standard Time by Steve Tyrell, Romancing the ‘60s by Frankie Valli, The Real Thing by Vanessa Williams, the movie soundtrack of Clockers and the cast recordings of Assassins, Bugs Bunny on Broadway, The Boys from Syracuse, Pal Joey and Wicked.

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