Clarinetist Moran Katz performs extensively throughout the U.S., Europe and East Asia as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Recent engagements included performances in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Holland, England, Ukraine, Israel, North Carolina, California, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington D.C. and New York as well as collaborations with the Ariel, Carmel, Contemporary and Benaim String Quartets. This season, she performs in New York, Washington D.C., Israel, France, China and Mongolia; Solo recitals at the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, at the Gessner-Schocken Recital Series in Cambridge and at the San Diego Jewish Music Festival. She has recently been invited to participate at the 2009 Marlboro Music Festival. 

Among other orchestras, she has been a featured soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Sinfonietta and the Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble. She performed in the United Nations Hall in Geneva, Biskek Philharmonia Hall in Kyrgyzstan, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi, Invalides in Paris, Palais des Fetes in Strasburg, Dunkerque Theatre, the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, and in New York's Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Joe's Pub, Miller Theater and Bargemusic.

Very active in the contemporary music scene, Ms. Katz was twice the soloist with the New Juilliard Ensemble, as part of the FOCUS! 2005 and 2006 Festivals. She often collaborates with the internationally acclaimed new music ensemble "Continuum" and with the Jazz Ensemble of Pianist Uri Caine. Last summer she returned to the MoMA Summergarden Series with a Solo Recital. This season she records contemporary clarinet works for the Albany Records label. She is also a founding member of "Clarinet Gang", a Klezmer band based in Germany.

Ms. Katz is the winner of numerous prizes and awards, such as the First Prize and Overall Prize at the 2009 Midland/Odessa National Young Artist Competition, Third prize at the 2008 Eastern Connecticut Symphony Instrumental Competition, 2006 Francois Schapira First Prize for Woodwinds at the prestigious Aviv Competitions, the 2004 Artists International's Young Artist Chamber Music Award (as a member of the "Nesher Trio"); First Prize at the 2004 Lions Clarinet Competition; Second Prizes in the Lions European Musical Prize 2004 for Clarinet in Rome; the 2003 Juilliard Nielsen Concerto Competition; the 2001 Brown-Roger-Ziegl Woodwind Competition in Jerusalem; and the 2002 "Thelma Yellin" prize for excellence in Music and Clarinet Performance. She is also the recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation grants with distinction since 1999.

 Ms. Katz received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in 2006 and 2008 as a student of Charles Neidich at The Juilliard School, New York, where she was admitted with presidential distinction and a full scholarship. She is now continuing her studies at Juilliard in the prestigious Artist Diploma Program, while serving as a teaching fellow in Juilliard's Literature and Materials Department and maintaining a private studio in the city. As a five year recipient of the Gluck Community Service Fellowship, she has given over 50 outreach performances in New York City.