A native of Virginia, Kathryn Quigley Perry joined the FWSO in 2005. She received her Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University School of Music, where she studied with Andrés Cárdenes.  Kathryn is also a cum laude graduate of Smith College, where she earned her bachelor's degree in English. She worked for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., for two years before pursuing a full-time career in music. At Smith, she studied violin with Philipp Naegele and won Smith's Ernst Wallfisch Prize in Music. Her other principal teachers include Ronda Cole and Ricardo Cyncynates. 

 Kathryn has taught lessons at the University of Texas at Arlington, and through Fort Worth private schools.  In the summers, she teaches and coaches chamber music at Berkshire Summer Music in western Massachusetts.  She enjoys playing chamber music with colleagues and doing outreach concerts in the Fort Worth community. 

 She and her husband, Dallas Symphony bassist Brian Perry, live in Fort Worth with their daughters, Madeleine and Margaret.