Katie Lodge is a London-based freelance trumpeter with extensive recording, broadcast, and concert experience as a chamber musician, orchestral player, and soloist.

She has recorded sessions for Hollywood soundtracks at Abbey Road, AIR, and RAK studios, regularly broadcasts with the BBC Concert Orchestra, and recently performed a series of trumpet solos broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 as part of Wren’s 400th anniversary.

As a keen natural trumpet player, she has appeared as principal with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and with the London Handel Players and Brook Street Band.

Orchestral work includes Britten Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Glyndebourne Touring Opera and Orchestra of the Swan. As a chamber musician Katie is a member of Solus Trumpet Ensemble and performed in the acclaimed debut of Noah Max’s A Child in Striped Pyjamas.

Katie is a passionate advocate for the power of music in education. Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music’s Open Academy fellowship programme, she has devised and led learning and participation projects for Southbank Sinfonia, A Dose of Nature, and the Musicians’ Company.