Kate Nordstrum

Kate Nordstrum is an artistic director, producer, and curator known for building ambitious, interdisciplinary platforms for new work. She is the founder and owner of Liquid Music, described by The New York Times as "Best of Classical," which launched at The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in 2012. She is co-director of BODY LIVE LIVE MUSIC with choreographer Dimitri Chamblas, a new platform for site-inspired performance projects that bring music, movement, and environment into dialogue. She also serves as Executive Producer, Humanities at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where she leads new initiatives that expand the orchestra's artistic scope through commissions, festivals, and cross-sector partnerships. Her experience includes ongoing work with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Fluxus, Body & Sound, and Rituals festivals, plus individual projects) and roles at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and New York City Center.

Named "Best Independent Producer'' by the Minnesota Star Tribune, Nordstrum's current/recent projects include copresentations and partnerships with the Walker Art Center, MIT Media Lab, Spoleto Festival USA, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Barbican, Brooklyn Academy of Music, ICA Boston, LA Dance Project, Center for the Art of Performance UCLA, 92NY, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MASS MoCA, On Being with Krista Tippett, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and New Amsterdam Records.

Across her work, Nordstrum creates frameworks where artists can develop ambitious projects over time and in dialogue with new contexts, audiences, and disciplines. She is known for pairing rigor with openness, bringing together artists, institutions, and communities in ways that expand how music is experienced and presented. Her curatorial vision has been widely recognized, with media describing her as “the most adventurous music curator in town” (MinnPost), “a presenter of rare initiative” (Star Tribune), and “a curatorial powerhouse with international pull” (Minnesota Public Radio).