Caitlyn Kamminga currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Double Bass and Project Leader of Searchlight Schools at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, the Academy for the Performing Arts.  After graduating cum laude, with both a BM and MM from the University of Southern California in 1992, she joined the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, where she held the position of Principal Double Bass until 1995.  Subsequent posts include Associate Principal of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Assistant Principal Double Bass in the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.   After six years in the BBC NOW, Kamminga moved to London to freelance, where she worked and toured worldwide with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia.  She has recorded the symphonic repertoire with leading symphony orchestras extensively and has several independent recordings of new chamber works for double bass.    

Ms. Kamminga has been the recipient of major grants from the United States Embassy to Trinidad and Tobago and the Vincent Wilkinson Foundation for the creation of new works.  These include Jab Molassie and River of Freedom, which received an American premiere in 2018 at the Chautauqua Institution, where Kamminga performs annually with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.  In March 2019, River of Freedom was performed by UTT Ibis Ensemble to high acclaim at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.  Currently, in development, Basses Are Loaded, Kamminga's latest play, received a staged reading by the Friends of the Chautauqua Theatre Company in 2015 and was staged at the Zeider’s American Dream Theatre in Norfolk, VA in November 2019.