Kate Vo
Co-President
Director of Music
Co-Founder
Kate is a 16-year-old violinist from Palo Alto, CA. She has been playing violin since the age of 4 and currently studies under Chen Zhao. She is a student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College, as well as a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Young Chamber Musicians program. Kate serves as Co-Regional Director of the Palo Alto region of the Back to Bach Project. This past summer, Kate attended the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and in the summer of 2024, she attended the Boston University Tanglewood Institute 2024 Young Artists Orchestra, where she was selected as co-concertmaster.
Kate has received awards in numerous violin and piano competitions, and has been invited to perform internationally. Kate won the Khuner Young Artist Concerto Competition and will perform as a soloist with the Prometheus Symphony Orchestra in March 2026. Kate was a winner of the 2025 YoungArts National Arts Competition, and previously, she has won 1st prize in the VIVO International Music Competition, Elite International Music Competition, Prima Volta Music Competition, New York Artists International Music Competition, US International Open Music Competition, Grand Prize Virtuoso International Competition where she was invited to perform in Salzburg, and the Vienna Virtuoso Music Competition, where she received the Judge's Best Performance Award and the Best Performance Award of the evening at the Gala concert in Berlin. Kate has played in masterclasses with renowned artists Jessie Montgomery and Nathan Cole, as well as with the Aris, Bennewitz, and Telegraph string quartets. For piano, Kate has received awards from the Piano Teachers Society of America.
Kate was concertmaster of the CMEA Bay Section Winter Conference 2023 Honors Orchestra. In addition, Kate performed in the 2023 CASMEC All-State Junior High String Orchestra, the 2023 CODA December Honors Symphony Orchestra, and the 2024 CASMEC All-State High School Symphony Orchestra.
Aside from music, Kate enjoys playing tennis, composing and arranging music, writing poems and stories, and traveling the world.
