She holds two doctorates, a DMA from the University of Michigan (2009) and a PhD from Duke University (2014), where she completed a dissertation on Joseph Joachim under R. Larry Todd. Katharina Uhde, born in Germany, received her BA degree in violin performance and a Teaching Diploma and Artists Diploma at the Univ. of Music, Karlsruhe. She earned a MMus, a DMA and a Certificate of Musicology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.