Kate Brinton, 13, was a gold prize winner for the 11-13 age group in the online 2023 Franz Schubert International Music Competition. She was selected to attend the Manhattan School of Music summer program for classical piano in New York City in the summers of 2023-24. She was the runner-up for the 2023 MMTA state competition for 7th grade. She has been a guest performer at the Capitol Theater in Salt Lake City, Utah and at piano concert series in Berlin and Frankfurt von Oder, Germany in 2022 and for a sell-out crowd of 1,000 in St. Louis, MO in March of 2024. She is a competitive waterpolo player and swimmer and plays the violin. She studies with Helen Chiu in Chesterfield, MO.
Her current repertoire includes:
Schubert impromptus no. 2 and 4
Haydn sonata in F major, no. 21
Bach inventions 9 and 15