Kate Romano

Clarinetist Kate Romano specializes in contemporary music and is the director of the Goldfield Ensemble, a multimedia group performing productions in various forms. She is also a composer. Romano grew up in the Derbyshire region in England's East Midlands. Her family was not musical, but early on, she showed the ability to learn pieces by ear, and she began taking clarinet lessons in school when she was ten and played in a local wind band. Romano attended the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. She was unsure about a career as an orchestral clarinetist, but she was...