Bio

Katie Semro is a composer whose music rides a beautiful line between modern and romantic aesthetics. It is intelligent without being obscure, clear without being simplistic, and cohesive without being predictable. Listening to her music is like taking a walk in a fresh landscape, you haven’t been there before, but you never feel lost.

Semro’s music has been performed throughout North America. She is a Gabriela Ortiz Composing Fellow 2025, and studies privately with composer Elena Ruehr. Currently, she is working on several chamber ensemble commissions. On September 30, 2025, her piece Fallout for solo violin, will be released and available wherever you listen. Her works are emotional journeys that grapple with the joys and struggles of transformation, the anguish of lost dreams, and the light and the dark that we all carry with us.

Semro found her way to composing through spoken word audio and electronic music. In 2023 she released an EP of electronic music, Gone, based on the emotional effects of our intangible losses. She has also collaborated with several visual artists, creating music and audio to accompany their works. Her audio art has been exhibited at Sound Scene Fest at the Hirshhorn Smithsonian Museum, and she won third prize in the 60 Sec Radio Competition in 2023. She is also a composer mentor for Music-COMP.

She lives in a cozy house along the Gridley River in Sharon, NH with her husband and two children.