Katharina Wincor made her North Carolina Symphony debut in 2022 with a program featuring Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 performed by pianist Clayton Stephenson, Weber's Overture to Oberon, and Farrenc's Symphony No. 2.

In November, Austrian conductor Katharina Wincor made her debut at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich with a new production of Henze’s Die Englische Katze to mark the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Other debuts for the 2025/26 season include The Hallé, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Bremer Philharmoniker, and Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, with returns to the Sarasota Orchestra, Altomonte Orchester St. Florian, and Upper Austrian Youth Orchestra. 

In 2024, Wincor conducted a concert at the Arnold Schönberg Center to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, with a chamber orchestra comprised of members of the Wiener Philharmoniker. Other recent guest conducting engagements include the SWR Symphonieorchester, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Bamberger Symphoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony, The Phoenix Symphony, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, Orquesta Sinfónica RTVE Madrid, Yomiuri Nippon Orchestra in Tokyo, and Queensland Symphony Orchestra. 

Wincor has served as assistant conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. In 2020, she was a prize-winner at the Mahler Competition. Her early experience with the Arnold Schoenberg Chor in Vienna shaped her approach to working with singers. After conducting Bernstein’s Candide at the 2022 May Festival with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, she also led a production at the Salzburger Landestheater and a children’s opera at the Salzburger Festspiele. 

Born and raised in Upper Austria, Wincor studied conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Zurich University of the Arts.