Quinta (musician)

Quinta is the stage name of Katherine Mann, a London-based multi-instrumentalist, solo artist, composer, and session player. She plays the violin, viola, musical saw, and keyboards. Mann's father nicknamed her "Quinta" when she was a baby; he was a teacher of Latin and Greek, and she was the fifth of five children.

Mann is a member of experimental arts quartet Collectress[1][2] who released their first album Mondegreen in 2014.[3] She has released two solo albums, My Sister Boudicca (2009)[4][5][6] and The Quick of the Heart (2017).[7][8]

Mann has performed with numerous other artists including as one of Bat for Lashes’ Blue Dreams on her Radiohead support tour[9][10] and as solo accompanist to Patrick Wolf on his Sundark Riverlight Acoustic World Tour.[11][12]

Since 2010, she has worked extensively with Radiohead's Philip Selway,[13][14] including on his 2014 album release Weatherhouse[15][16] and on the acclaimed score for Rambert's Merce Cunningham Event in 2014.[17][18]

Mann has composed for circus, dance, theatre and television, including for The Paper Cinema,[19][20][21] Mimbre,[22][23] Ockham's Razor[24] and Rambert[25][26] amongst others.

Mann was Rambert's 2015/16 Music Fellow,[27] British Council/PRSF China Musician-in-Residence in 2017,[28] and PRSF Composer Fund awardee in 2019.[29]