Education
She studied piano, voice and composition at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, Peabody Conservatory and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912.
She studied piano, voice and composition at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, Peabody Conservatory and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912.
Catherine Murphy Urner Shatto (23 March 1891 – 30 April 1942) was an American composer. She continued her studies at the University of California at Berkeley and with Charles Koechlin in Paris from 1920-1921. Urner worked as a professor and director of vocal music at Mills College in Oakland, California from 1921-1924.
After leaving Mills College, she devoted her time to performing, composing and touring in the United States. and Europe with the assistance of Charles Koechlin.
She also collected Native American tribal melodies which she incorporated into her compositions. Her first string quartet premiered in 1925 at Salle Playel in Paris.
She arranged for Koechlin to teach a course at the University of California in 1928, and afterward lived with Koechlin in Paris until 1933, collaborating on a number of works. She died in San Diego, and her papers are housed at the University of California at Berkeley Library.