External links
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- Collectress Archived 10 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine
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| Born | Katherine Mann |
| Origin | London, England |
| Occupation | Instrumentalist |
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Quinta is the stage name of Katherine Mann, a London-based multi-instrumentalist, solo artist, composer, and session player. She plays the violin, viola, musical saw, and keyboards. Mann's father nicknamed her "Quinta" when she was a baby; he was a teacher of Latin and Greek, and she was the fifth of five children.
Mann is a member of experimental arts quartet Collectress [1] [2] who released their first album Mondegreen in 2014. [3] She has released two solo albums, My Sister Boudicca (2009) [4] [5] [6] and The Quick of the Heart (2017). [7] [8]
Mann has performed with numerous other artists including as one of Bat for Lashes’ Blue Dreams on her Radiohead support tour [9] [10] and as solo accompanist to Patrick Wolf on his Sundark Riverlight Acoustic World Tour. [11] [12]
Since 2010, she has worked extensively with Radiohead's Philip Selway, [13] [14] including on his 2014 album release Weatherhouse [15] [16] and on the acclaimed score for Rambert's Merce Cunningham Event in 2014. [17] [18]
Mann has composed for circus, dance, theatre and television, including for The Paper Cinema, [19] [20] [21] Mimbre, [22] [23] Ockham's Razor [24] and Rambert [25] [26] amongst others.
Mann was Rambert's 2015/16 Music Fellow, [27] British Council/PRSF China Musician-in-Residence in 2017, [28] and PRSF Composer Fund awardee in 2019. [29]
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