Edinburgh born Catriona is in her 4th year of undergraduate study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama under the tuition of Margaret Aronson. She is a former student of the RSAMD Junior Academy where she was the winner of the Junior Glasgow Grand Opera Society Cup for Voice and the Concerto Competition, and sang with the Chamber Orchestra at the RSAMD and in Carlisle Cathedral. At the RSAMD, Catriona has sung with the Chamber Choir with whom she toured Berlin and Potsdam in 2007. She currently sings in the a capella octet Dieci. With these ensembles she has sung at the Balquhidder and Brechin music festivals, the RSAMD’s Summerfest.

A former member of the National Youth Choir of Scotland and the NYCoS Chamber Choir, Catriona has toured the UK and has sung in the Grant Park Festival in Chicago with them.

Catriona has recently returned to Scotland from a 5 month ERASMUS exchange where she studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, under the tuition of Julie Kaufmann. While she was there she took part in masterclasses with Håkan Hagegård and Svein Bjørkøy.

Earlier this year Catriona performed for the Friends of Scottish Opera in a masterclass and workshop, was in the Carmelites chorus for the RSAMD opera production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites and appeared at the opening concert of the Edinburgh International Festival as one of the Ladies of Mahagonny in Kurt Weill’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Solo performances include Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri; Handel’s Dixit Dominus; Vivaldi’s Gloria; Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G Minor ; Bach’s Magnificat, Mass in A, and Cantatas 39 and150, and a recital in St Cuthbert’s Church in Edinburgh.

Future performances include the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year Grand Final in London with Dieci. In the new year she will appear as a chorus member in the RSAMD’s next opera production, Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges, for which she is also understudying the role of Smeraldine.