Cellist Käthe Jarka has performed in 25 states, in Europe and Asia. She is in demand as a chamber musician and recitalist. She has collaborated with many of today’s preeminent musicians including the Juilliard Quartet, YoYo Ma, the Tesla Quartet, Gil Shaham, and Donald Weilerstein, to name a few. Formerly a member of the Shanghai Quartet, Ms Jarka has performed in major venues, including with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has participated in the Marlboro and Tanglewood Music Festivals among many others.

Ms. Jarka can be heard on recordings on the Pickwick, New Albion, MMC and Naxos labels and has been heard frequently on National Public Radio.. She taught for many years on the Music Advancement Program at Juilliard and was on the faculty of The Mannes College Preparatory division. Her teachers included Leonard Rose and William Pleeth as well as chamber music studies with the Juilliard, Tokyo, Vermeer quartets among others.

An active and devoted cello teacher for many years, Käthe is also an AmSAT certified teacher of the Alexander Technique and has presented workshops internationally and at numerous universities nationwide including at NYU, Mannes College of Music, St Olaf and Yale University and for the US Air Force. She served on the faculty of the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, teaching the Alexander Technique to actors. For many years, Ms. Jarka was a faculty member at ATNCY, an Alexander training school.

Ms. Jarka is a member of the Minnesota Bach Ensemble and of  VC3, a cello trio based in NY. She is also the cellist and Director of the Twin Cities branch of Music for Food, a national, musician-led organization committed to alleviating food scarcity locally by presenting chamber music concerts to benefit local food shelves. She divides her time between Minnesota and New York, but her home base is Minneapolis where she lives with her husband, flutist Immanuel Davis, and two very musical cats.