Catherine began studying the violin at the age of six in the Cork School of Music where she studied with Colette O’Brien, Una Kindlon and Ruxandra Petcu-Colan. She has achieved an ATCL and LTCL Diploma in Violin Performance from Trinity College of Music in London. Recently, Catherine graduated with a BSc. in Clinical Speech and Language Studies from Trinity College, Dublin. She is currently studying with Mariana Sirbu as part of the MA in Classical String Performance in the University of Limerick. 

Catherine works regularly as a freelance violinist in Dublin and throughout Ireland. She has been invited to perform with the World Youth Orchestra on three occasions, and has played with this ensemble for the United Nations General Assembly in New York. She is a deputy violinist with the RTE Concert Orchestra and has worked with the Lyric Opera Orchestra. She has led the Hibernian Orchestra, one of Dublin’s leading amateur orchestras . In 2007, she led this orchestra in a performance of Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony together with the Dublin Youth Symphony Orchestra in the National Concert Hall. She has also led the Trinity College Orchestra, and appeared as a soloist twice with this ensemble. These performances included Brahm’s Double Concerto for Violin and ‘Cello (with Niall Trainor – ‘cello), and the Violin Concerto by Philip Glass. 

Catherine’s television appearances include the Late Late, and Miriam O’Callaghan Show.