Katarzyna Bryla

Violist Katarzyna Bryla joined the San Francisco Symphony viola section beginning with the 2022-2023 season. She was born into a family of musicians and has gone on to earn more than two dozen prizes and awards in the United States, France and her native Poland.

In 2019 she became a member of St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble and a co-principal violist with Orchestra of St. Luke’s in New York City. She was also a member of the New York City Ballet Orchestra and the New York Pops.

Ms. Bryla was a soloist with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra in their tour of China in 2010, and was soloist for the noted Maazel/Vilar Conducting Competition in Cracow in 2001.

Katarzyna has performed in numerous renowned music festivals: Classical Tahoe, Napa Valley Music Festival, Central Vermont Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Cactus Pear Music Festival, Bach Dancing and Dynamite, Singapore Sun Music Festival, Las Palmas Music Festival in Grand Canary Island Spain and many others.

Her teachers include Christian Tetzlaff, David Cerutti, Herbert Greenberg, Hongang Li, Jadwiga Kaliszewska, and her father Bartosz Bryla.