Lorna Katz is in her first year of graduate school to earn her Ph.D. in Composition, at the University of California, Riverside. She has been a singer and performer for most of her life. She is a professional actor and nineteen-year member of the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Radio and Television Artists. She has an IMDB page and has appeared in various TV shows, feature films, and commercials. Lorna earned her Master of Music in the discipline of Theory and Composition at the California State University, Fullerton, where she was a student of Dr. Pamela Madsen. She graduated from CSUF in May 2023, and was awarded the outstanding graduate composer award at the school’s 2023 convocation ceremony. She also was awarded the 2023 Ellen Jane Lorenz Grant for Graduate Composition, from the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, which funded her attendance at Operation Opera in 2023 as an Art Song participant in composition. Lorna has most recently been selected as one of twelve composers for the Choral Arts Initiative Premiere Festival 2024, to be held at the University of California, Irvine. Lorna is currently a PhD composition student of Dr. Dana Kaufman at UC, Riverside.