Katherine Siochi

Katherine Siochi is a harpist scheduled to appear as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony in April 2027, performing the world premiere of Rene Orth's Concerto for Harp and Percussion alongside Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. Beyond this engagement, the available directory information does not confirm further biographical details about her career.

Siochi appears here as soloist in a newly commissioned concerto, Rene Orth's Concerto for Harp and Percussion, written for and premiered by the San Francisco Symphony. Listeners can expect the harp paired closely with a percussion section, likely trading the harp's plucked, resonant tone against mallets, drums, and metallic colors rather than sitting atop a full string-and-wind orchestra. Because this is a world premiere, the piece will be new to every listener in the hall, so there is no established performance tradition to compare it against. The same program closes with Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, a large orchestral showpiece from 1830 known for its idée fixe, a recurring melody representing an obsession that reappears, transformed, across all five movements. The harp has a prominent moment in Berlioz's second movement waltz, so audiences will hear the soloist in an orchestral role there as well.