Katherine Webb (née Burk) (b. 1990) is Canon for Music at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon. In that role, she oversees Trinity’s robust music program, directing the Cathedral’s choral ensembles, its Choir School, and its concert series, which often features Trinity’s landmark Rosales organ. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Royal School of Church Music in America (RSCMA). 

Katie is active as a choral clinician and composer, having served on the choral faculty both at the RSCMA King’s College Training Course in Pennsylvania and at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians Worship and Music Conference at Montreat, North Carolina. Her choral compositions have been heard in sacred and academic venues all across the country and at several RSCMA summer choral residencies.

Katie earned her doctorate in organ performance, with minor fields in choral conducting and music theory, at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she was a student of Christopher Young. She received the MM in organ performance at IU and completed undergraduate coursework at St. Olaf College in Minnesota where she graduated summa cum laude with degrees in organ performance and vocal music education.

Prior to her appointment at Trinity Cathedral, Portland as Organ Scholar in 2020, Katie served Episcopal congregations in Kansas, Minnesota, and Indiana. She also taught music theory at IU and is a recent recipient of IU’s Wennerstrom Fellowship, an award that honors excellence in music theory pedagogy. She also was named to The Diapason’s “Twenty Under Thirty” Class of 2019 in recognition of outstanding achievement in the fields of church music and organ performance.