Catriona and Raymond
Catriona Bourne and Raymond Wui Man Yiu began playing together in 2023, when they were Finalists in the Carne Chamber Competition, and subsequently won first prize in the same Carne Chamber Competition in 2025. They have commissioned and premiered new works by composers including Asha Parkinson and TL alum Nathen Durasamy, and are grateful to be supported in their activities by the Colin Blythe Award. The duo have performed together at venues including St. John’s Smith Square, Conway Hall, St. George’s Bristol, the University Women’s Club, Aylesbury Lunchtime Concerts and St. James’ Piccadilly.
While at school Catriona Bourne was a UK Finalist in the Rotary Young Musician of the Year Competition. She then read Music at University College, Oxford, where she was a Choral Scholar and Ensemble Isis Scholar, followed by 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 performed the Ibert Concerto with Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra in March 2019 and was the flute soloist for a re-working of Saariaho's flute concerto with Cambridge University New Music Ensemble. She recently graduated from an MMus in flute performance with Distinction from Trinity Laban Conservatoire, having been supported during her studies by a TCL Scholarship, Bibby Award Scholarship, a Michael Hirst Award Scholarship, the Colin Blythe Award and the Women's Careers Foundation. She won the 2022 Harold Clarke Woodwind Competition and 2024 Historically Informed Performance Competition at Trinity Laban, as well as being a recipient of the 2023 Wilfred Hambleton Chamber Music Prize. Catriona specialises in new music, and has been booked to perform contemporary concertos with orchestra including the Liebermann Concerto No. 1. She has also experimented with flute and live electronics, performing a solo set of her own arrangements and improvisations in the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall, and recorded an album of her own compositions, Triquetra, funded by the Youth Music NextGen Fund.
Born in Hong Kong, Raymond Wui Man Yiu moved to Aberdeen, Scotland in 2008 and attended the Aberdeen City Music School studying the piano with Peter Evans. During his time at ACMS, he made his concerto debut performing Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 with the Meadows Chamber Orchestra in Edinburgh in 2010. Since winning the title of Aberdeen Young Musician of the Year, he performed concertos by Schumann, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Grieg with orchestras. He gave recitals at music festivals around Scotland including the Aberdeen International Youth Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2012 he won a scholarship to study with Senior Professor Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he obtained his Master's and Bachelor's degrees with Distinction. Being a recipient of numerous national and international prizes, he won concerto prizes at festivals including Springboard, Worthing and Edinburgh,3rd Prize at 2019 Norah Sande Awards, Highly Commended Prize at 2019 Bromsgrove International Musicians' Competition, 3rd Prize Christopher Duke International Piano Competition, 3rd Prize Moray International Piano Competition, 5th Prize at the First New Stars International Music Competition for Strings and Piano, and 3rd Prize at 2018 Windsor International Piano Competition, which led to an invitation to join the KNS Classical Label. He was recently on the Artist Diploma programme as a Trinity College of Music Scholar studying with Gabriele Baldocci at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, where he has won the John Longmire and Alfred Kitchin Competitions for his interpretations of the works by Beethoven and Schumann. He is grateful for the support by the Felix Marr Award, Leathersellers’ Company, Deena Shypitka Music Award, Dewar Arts Awards, Phyllis Simons Award, the Guildhall School Trust and Christine Brown Trust throughout his studies.