Katharina Schröter received her first flute lessons at the age of eleven. Only six years later, in addition to her lessons with Ute Widdermann, she received preparatory lessons with Prof. Mirjam Nastasi (University of Music Würzburg). Katharina Schröter was a national prize winner at Jugend Musiziert and a sponsorship prize winner at the Händel Competition, as well as a first prize winner at the international chamber music competition in Épinal.

After graduating from high school, she studied with Prof. Gaby Pas-van Riet and Britta Jacobs at the University of Music Saar in Saarbrücken. Thanks to several scholarships she studied abroad in the USA with Prof. Jeanne Baxtresser (Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh). Back in Germany, she completed her concert maturity studies at the University of Music Würzburg Saarbrücken with distinction. Due to extraordinary academic achievements, she was supported by the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation, the Anna Ruths Foundation, the Bruno and Elisabeth Meindl Foundation and the DOMS Foundation Basel, among others. Katharina Schröter was already employed by the Munich Symphony Orchestra for one season during her studies. Since then she has played regularly in professional orchestras, including the orchestra of the Landestheater Eisenach, Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester, Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg, Philharmonisches Orchester Ulm, Pfalztheaterorchester Kaiserslautern and in the Badische Philharmonie Pforzheim.

In addition to her own artistic activities, Katharina Schröter is very interested in promoting young talent. Her students at the Stuttgart Music School have won prizes at numerous national and international competitions. Furthermore, she has been teaching at the University of Music Würzburg since the winter semester 22/ 23. In addition to her teaching activities, her great passion is chamber music. Here she could convince among other things at the festivals "two days and nights of new music" in Odessa (Ukraine) and "Verfemte Musik" in Schwerin. Since 2020 she has been making music with her husband Johannes Walter (1st percussionist at the Theater Freiburg) as the duo "ImPuls" and in other permanent chamber music formations.