The German flutist Katrin Szamatulski studied with Rolf Bissinger in Frankfurt am Main, with Benoît Fromanger in Berlin and most recently with Pirmin Grehl in Lucerne. There, she successfully completed two Master of Arts in Music degrees, focusing on orchestra performance and instrumental pedagogy. She received important impulses from Martin Fahlenbock, Carin Levine, Eva Furrer, Camilla Hoitenga and Mario Caroli. She participated in the Darmstadt Summer Courses in New Music, the Impuls Academy in Graz, the Ensemble Academy of the Ensemble Recherche in Freiburg and the Klangspuren International Ensemble Modern Academy in Schwaz. She plays regularly in various chamber music groups and ensembles such as Asambura Ensemble (DE), Ensemble SARGO (CH) Duo Zweisam (IS), and is one of the co-founders of the contemporary music ensembles Lunaire (CH), Broken Frames Syndicate (DE) and the chamber orchestras O!contraire (CH) and Contemporary Chamber Orchestra Elbe (DE). As a soloist, Katrin Szamatulski has performed in Iceland, Denmark, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Furthermore she played at numerous festivals, including the Swiss Lucerne Festival, the Mixtur Festival (Barcelona), the Vendsyssel Festival and Midt i Marts in Denmark, the Windworks Festival (Iceland), the Frühjahrstage für Neue Musik in Weimar, the Pyramidale (Berlin), the Gaudeamus Muziekweek and the Wittener Tage für Neue Musik. The ensemble Broken Frames Syndicate, in which she is a co-founder and project manager, was part of the German Music Council's "Inszene" ensemble funding programme and a winner of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation's Ensemble Prize 2024.
In the 2017/18 season she was part of the renowned International Ensemble Modern Academy. As a substitute she played with Ensemble Proton Bern, Collegium Novum in Zurich, and Ensemble Via Nova in Weimar. In addition to her musical activities, she worked for several years as a research assistant at the Lucerne University of applied sciences and arts. She is also intensively involved in teaching contemporary music to beginners and amateurs as well as researching and disseminating the works of female composers. From 2021-2023, she has been part of the board of the Frankfurt Society for New Music (fgnm) and has also taken over the artistic direction of the seasonal chamber music concerts in Erbach (i.Odenwald).
As an artist I am interested in all kinds of creative processes: Contemporary classical music gives me the opportunity to work together with living composers and thus to become part of the current music scene, to reflect and influence it. Instead of dealing exclusively with older classical repertoire, as is usual in the traditional classical music business, I want to actively shape the present by playing contemporary music. In turn, when developing concepts, such as concert programmes, I make music come alive in a new way. Through my work, I would like to be able to look at works in a new way again and again and to be able to see them from a different angle. This happens, for example, in mixed programmes (older classical works are juxtaposed with contemporary works), in interdisciplinary programmes (combination with other art forms) or in unusual places (outside the traditional concert halls). It is also very important to me to stimulate my audience through music, to give them experiences and maybe even something to take with them on their way. I believe that no other art form is able to touch people as deeply and connect them across all borders as music can do it.