One of the most outstanding figures of her generation of Hungarian violinists, Katalin Kokas was born in a family of music educators. Besides solo recitals, chamber music, string quartets and music pedagogy have also played a crucial part in her career. Since 2004, he has been a member of the academic staff of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, regularly gives masterclasses both in Hungary and abroad. Some of the most prominent musicians of the international music scene have invited her to their festivals, for instance, Gidon Kremer to Lockenhaus (Austria), Steven Isserlis to Prussia Cove (UK), Isabelle van Keulen to Delft (Holland), Jelena Baskirova to Jerusalem, András Schiff András to Ittingen (Switzerland), Dima Slobodeniouk Korsholma (Finland), but she also featured at MIDEM in Cannes. She has collaborated with such world-class artists as Zoltán Kocsis, Miklós Perényi, Michael Stern, Kobayashi Ken-Ichiro, Alexander Lonquich, Pekka Kuusisto, Guy Braunstein, the Chilingirian Quartet and such high-ranking ensembles as the Bratislava, the Isreal or the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestras, the Philharmonics of Taiwan, Košice, Poznań or Târgu Mureș, several symphony orchestra in Hungary, North and South America and South Africa.

She was the founder of the Kaposvár International Chamber Music Festival and also acted as its artistic director in the initial five years of its history. Later, together with her husband, Barnabás Kelemen, she co-founded the international chamber music festival and masterclass Festival Academy Budapest. Since 2010, she has been a member of the internationally celebrated Kelemen Quartet, which returned to the stage after a three-year break in May, 2021 with two new members – the violinist Jonian Ilias Kadesha and cellist Vashti Hunter – and debuted at the Bartók Spring Festival in Budapest with Bartók’s six string quartets covering the composer’s entire career.  Her art has been honoured with the Liszt Ferenc Prize and Hungary’s Meritous Artists Award.