Katalin Koltai performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician. She is a champion of contemporary music, creating interdisciplinary stage works and transcriptions. She records for North/South Recordings, Naxos, Hungaroton, and Genuin. Her transcriptions of music from various musical eras have been published by Doblinger Austria. She has degrees from the Budapest Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, and the Conservatorium Maastricht. She has studied with József Eötvös, Antigoni Goni, Raphaella Smits, Carlo Marchione, and José María Gallardo Del Rey. Since 2018, she has been a PhD researcher at the International Guitar Research Centre, University of Surrey, where she is focusing on guitar transcription and new music for guitar under the supervision of Stephen Goss and Tom Armstrong. Currently a FASS Scholarship Holder, she is a former fellow of the Dutch Cultural Ministry and winner of the Hungarian Junior Prima Prize.