Catherine combines work as a teacher of the Alexander Technique
with her career as a musician. She studied the Alexander
Technique with the late Walter Carrington at the Constructive
Teaching Centre in London (the longest established training
school in the world) graduating in July 2005, and has continued
her study of AT with John Nicholls, Ilana Machover, Elizabeth
Walker and Harry Walton.
Catherine graduated from the University of Hull in 1995 with a
BMus Honours degree and was awarded the Andrew Brown Memorial
Prize in Music (for the highest performance recital mark).
Catherine was then invited to remain in Hull as a specialist
recorder tutor for the music department. She undertook
postgraduate study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
with Pamela Thorby, Philip Pickett and Gail Hennessy where she
won the 1997 Portallion Chamber Music Prize with guitarist
Arngeir Hauksson, and in 1999 the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award
(with Concanentes).
Catherine is a founder member of the award winning medieval and
renaissance ensemble Concanentes, which has performed in many of
the major festivals in Europe including York, Barcelona and
Bruges Early Music Festivals and toured extensively in the UK,
Holland and France. Catherine has given solo recitals and
masterclasses all over the UK playing in the Royal Festival
Hall, Purcell Room and Pump Room in Bath, as well as performing
as a guest soloist with several orchestras including the
National Chamber Orchestra of Wales.
Catherine teaches at Eton College, Marlborough College and the
West London Centre for Alexander Technique and regularly gives
workshops in the Alexander Technique to musicians. She is also
an external examiner for the Welsh College of Music and Drama
and Trinity College of Music.
