Flute

While at school Catriona was a UK Finalist in the Rotary Young Musician of the Year Competition, and she performed as a soloist 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), and an MMus in advanced flute performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, which she graduated with Distinction (supported by scholarships from TCL, the Bibby Award, Michael Hirst Award and the Women’s Careers Foundation).

Catriona has performed as a concerto soloist on multiple occasions, including the Chaminade Concertino with Warwickshire Youth Orchestra while at school, the Ibert Concerto with Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra in March 2019 (after winning their annual competition) and a re-working of Saariaho's flute concerto with Cambridge University New Music Ensemble (also in 2019). In 2025 she is performing the Liebermann Flute Concerto No. 1 with Banbury Symphony Orchestra. Her concerto repertoire includes Reinecke and Nielsen, in addition to shorter works such as the Hüe Fantaisie. She additionally collaborated as a flute soloist with the Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge on a performance of Bettinis' Cedit Hyems. Catriona won first place in the 2022 Harold Clarke Woodwind Competition and was a Finalist in the 2022 Soloists’ Competition at Trinity Laban.

Catriona particularly loves chamber music, winning the 2023 Wilfred Hambleton Chamber Music Prize at Trinity Laban and taking first prize at the 2024 Carne Trust Chamber Competition in a trio with percussionist Ethan Windle and pianist Raymond Wui-Man Yiu, as well as being a recipient of the Colin Blythe Award. She has performed with her groups at venues including Kings Place, Conway Hall and St. John’s Smith Square. Catriona also enjoys playing the Baroque flute, for which she has devised her own arrangements in a duo with theorbo player Fabio Fernandes and in which she is supported by the Exuberant Trust. She was delighted to win the 2024 Historically Informed Performance competition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire.

Catriona is especially interested in contemporary/cross-genre flute performance, playing in improvising collective the London Ambient Orchestra at events including Wilderness Festival, and leading her own jazz-classical fusion group the Bolling Quartet, commissioning works from Nathen Durasamy and Asha Parkinson. She recently performed a solo set of her own improvisations and arrangements for flute and electronics in the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall, and has collaborated with a range of artists, featuring on jazz-classical composer Eden Longson’s single Batalix & Freyr (released 2024) and indie singer-songwriter Grace Angelica’s upcoming EP (2025), as well as playing for jazz fusion artist TC.Kylie at a range of venues including the Jazz Cafe.

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 (The Calliope Harp Trio)

• Flute, piano and percussion trio (The Bolling 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