Flute

While at school Catriona was a UK Finalist in the Rotary Young Musician of the Year Competition and she performed for Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Alexandra. Catriona then read Music at University College, Oxford, where she was a Choral Scholar and Ensemble Isis Scholar. She subsequently attained a PGCE and Master’s in Music Education at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where she received an Instrumental Award from the Faculty of Music and a Lincoln Award and Garrett Award from Magdalene College. Catriona has performed as a concerto soloist on multiple occasions, including with Warwickshire Youth Orchestra while at school, with Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra in March 2019 (after winning their annual competition) and in a re-working of Saariaho's flute concerto with Cambridge University New Music Ensemble (also in 2019). Her concerto repertoire includes Ibert, Liebermann, Reinecke and Nielsen, in addition to shorter works such as the Hüe Fantaisie and Chaminade Concertino. She additionally collaborated as a flute soloist with the Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge on a performance of Bettinis' Cedit Hyems. In 2018, Catriona attended Emily Beynon's Neflac course as a Young International Professional.

Catriona won the 2022 Harold Clarke Woodwind Competition at Trinity Laban, where she is currently studying advanced flute performance with the support of a TCL Scholarship, Bibby Award Scholarship, the Michael Hirst Award Scholarship, the Colin Blythe Fund and the Women’s Careers Foundation. She was a Finalist in the 2022 Trinity Laban Soloists’ Competition, as well as being a Highly Commended Young Artist at the 2022 Flutes in Tuscany course and concert series in Tereglio, Italy. Her areas of interest include Baroque flute, on which she has devised her own arrangements in a duo with theorbo player Fabio Fernandes, and contemporary/cross-genre flute performance, playing in improvising collective the London Ambient Orchestra and leading her own jazz-classical fusion group the Bolling Quartet. Catriona particularly loves chamber music, winning the 2023 Wilfred Hambleton Chamber Music Prize at Trinity Laban and playing as a Finalist in the 2022 Carne Trust Chamber Competition.

Catriona welcomes recital opportunities for her chamber groups including:

• Flute and piano duo

• Flute and guitar duo (The Heliconia Duo)

• Baroque flute and theorbo duo

• Flute, cello and piano trio

• Flute, violin and viola trio

• Flute, piano and violin trio

• Flute, harp and percussion trio

• Flute, bass, piano and drumkit/percussion quartet (The Bolling Quartet)

• Flute and string quintet (in collaboration with The Waldstein Quartet)

• Contemporary septet Cirque de Pierrot