Often compared to songstress queens Joni Mitchell and Rickie Lee Jones, Katharina has gained the reputation as a highly accomplished and versatile singer/songwriter & composer.

A human concoction between sophisticated jazz diva, quirky Pippi Longstocking and wittily wordy intellectual, she never fails to move, amuse, shock and charm her audiences wherever she performs. Her understated style betrays her powerful and passionate talent and surprises at second sight & sound, not at first. A singer impossible to forget and a poet to be reckoned with.

Having spent most of her childhood in Bavaria & Ireland, she mostly sings and writes in English and her "outsider's" approach to the language lends her lyrics an unusual and intriguing twist. She soon began to do voiceovers for radio and film studios alongside her mother and learned the fine art of clear speech and accurate timing.

She has been performing extensively both on her own and alongside a variety of excellent musicians in art centres, hotels, clubs and at festivals and intimate concert stages in Germany, Sweden, Ireland and England. Venues in Britain include clubs like the Guildhall/Gloucester, The Prom, The River, Tantric Jazz/Bristol, the Komedia, the Sanctuary/Brighton, The Kashmir Club/London, The Jazz & Blues Cafe and the Cheltenham Jazz/Literature Festival, that has been featuring her for the last three years running. Autumn 1997 saw her moving to England where she soon integrated with the local music scene. She joined a local jazz trio and performed and recorded with them for nearly two years. In 1999 she finished recording ten of her own songs with them.

Originally only intended as provisional demo tracks, they received such positive feedback from musicians and audiences alike that she decided to turn them into her introspective Debut album .Somebody.. Since its launch, and despite having used very limited resources, it gained much recognition in the music industry and became one of the first albums to be promoted by peoplesound, one of Britain.s then largest music web sites,. The first track "Angharad" got chosen to be featured on the jazz compilation album "A Rey Jazz".

In 1998 she worked with Terry Oldfield on his album "All the Rivers Gold" and appears alongside him in the documentary "Celtic Fury". In 2001 she was invited to co-write and sing on the break beat single "Truth"/Dubplatter.

Many successful performances & a profound life changing experience later she turned out her long awaited second, more gregarious and upbeat Album, "Love for Life" with a line up of some of Gloucestershire's most wanted jazz wizards, Andy Nowak, Jeff Spencer, Matthew Jones and Steve Browning.

Hosting musicians of the finest calibre, together they weave often categorised genres into a richly textured fusion of groovy funk, smooth jazz and soulful singer/songwriter style.

In January 2004 she performed in selected clubs in Munich backed by a full band and received some fine reviews from Munich's leading press. Despite offers by German jazz label yvp she decided to self release the Album and in April 2004 officially launched her website.

Later on that year, she gave a concert of pure improvisation at the Ueberlinger water festival in Germany with Ingvo Clauder, virtuoso on both piano and saxophone.

One of her tracks from her new album was chosen to be featured on the new compilation album "The best music you've never heard . Volume 2." It is an International tribute to Independent artists produced by mosquito media, a new innovative music company. A donation of £1 will be made to breast cancer research from the sale of each copy of the CD.

Among other concerts she gave an exclusive performance at one of Munich's most prestigious Jazz clubs "Unterfahrt" and has been performing at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival this spring. Her music is regularly broadcast locally (Stroud FM, BBC Gloucestershire, The Eagle, Bristol) and internationally (ISON Radio Network, Australia).

She is featured on the lately released Album by DJ Giles (Wood) "a new way 4 ward", with their collaborative track "abandon" and is currently working on the rough recordings for her third album, a combination of sung poetry, classical elements & rap over infectious drum & bass, intricate jazz chords and acoustic and electronic sounds, ambient and funky.

She offers tuition & workshops integrating among other aspects creative writing, vocal expression, technique and improvisation, and performing presence, drawing on her rich live experience, a year long course in performing arts and workshops she attends.