Music

Genre: Folk/Pop and Jazz  ·  Hometown: Alexandria, Ontario

Katie Ditschun is a Folk/Pop and Jazz artist with a flair for playing with — and inserting — various other styles in her songwriting. With the support of a FACTOR grant, she released her debut album Spare Skirt in 2018. From that release, her singles The Moon and That is that. were both finalists in the Canadian Independent Music Video Awards. Five songs from that album have received airplay.

In 2020 Katie released her holiday single Be Still. It was immediately included in the CBC Holiday Playlist and continues to receive airtime on multiple formats, including radio stations across Canada every year at Christmastime.

Her first attempt at writing her own jazz songs earned her recognition in the International Songwriting Competition: the title track of her original jazz EP One Voice (2022) was an ISC Jazz category Semi-finalist.

Most recently, Katie released her Folk/Pop EP There Will Be Flowers (April 2025). The previously released lead single In Your Arms (October 2024) was a 2025 Pop category Finalist in the InterContinental Music Awards.

Katie frequently performs as a jazz act or singer-songwriter, solo and with a small band, across eastern Ontario. She recently had the privilege of opening for Juno-nominated artist Ndidi O at the St. Lawrence Acoustic Stage in Morrisburg, Ontario.

Over the last couple of years a large amount of her focus has been on opening her own music school. In the fall of 2024 Katie and her business partner created and opened the Seaway Valley Music Academy in Cornwall, Ontario. Katie earned her music degree at Berklee College of Music.