Catrin is a professional harpist based in Hertfordshire who is in high demand for weddings, corporate and private functions.
Classically Trained
Catrin comes from Anglesey, North Wales. After completing a Performers’ Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied with David Watkins, she began her Postgraduate Studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Skaila Kanga, from which she graduated in 1994.
West End
Catrin has performed in numerous West End shows including My Fair Lady, South Pacific (Royal National Theatre), The Secret Garden (Royal Shakespeare Company), Napoleon, The King and I, Notré Dame de Paris and Oliver! Catrin is currently a deputy on the Phantom of the Opera and The Producers.
Orchestral
Her recent orchestral work has included performances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, the Hallé, Southern Sinfonia, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Glyndebourne Touring Orchestra, English Touring Orchestra, the Opera São Carlos in Lisbon, The Royal Shakespeare Company, London City Ballet, Moscow City Ballet and the Northern Ballet Company. Recital performances have included Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp in the Barbican Hall, Debussy’s Dance Sacrée et Dance Profane at the Minehead Festival and a world Premier performance of Adam Gorb’s Harps of Gold, for harp quintet, at the Wigmore Hall.
PROCESSIONAL WEDDING MUSIC
Trumpet Tune Purcell
Sicilienne von Paradis
Trumpet Voluntary Jeremiah Clarke
Bridal Chorus Wagner
Wedding March Mendelssohn
CLASSICAL
Rondo Alla Turca Mozart
Adagio in G minor Albinoni
Arioso Bach
Mozart Piano Concerto No.21
Méditation from Thaïs Massenet
Serenade Schubert
Passacaille Handel
Ave Maria Schubert
Minuet Mozart
Pachelbel’s Canon in D
Apres Un Reve Faure
Mendelssohn’s On Wings of Song
Andante Mozart
Concerto for Flute and harp extracts Mozart
Sonate for flute and Harp Donzetti
The Swan Saint-Saens
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Mozart’s Minuet Adagio from Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto
Morning Grieg
Fur Elise Beethoven
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Bach
Adagio (2nd Movement) from Telemann’s Oboe Concerto
Prelude No. 1 Bach
Variations on a theme Rossini
Chanson De Matin Elgar
First Arabesque Debussy
Air on The G String J S Bach
Berceuse from Dolly Suite (Listen With Mother Signature Tune) Fauré
Moonlight Sonata Beethoven
Recuerdos de la Alhambra Tarrega
Swan Lake (scene from) Tchaikovsky
Sheep May Safely Graze J S Bach
Nocturne Borodin
Spring from The Four Seasons Vivaldi
Waltz from Coppélia Delibes
Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty Tchaikovsky
Entr’acte Ibert
Morçeau de Concours Fauré
Two Medieval Dances Amorosi
Pavane Ravel
Clair de Lune Debussy
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy etc. from The Nutcracker Tchaikovsky
Sonatas J.S. Bach
Andante con Variationi Rossini
Dance of the Blessed Spirits Gluck
Czardas Monti
FOLK SONGS
Brian Boru’s March (trad. Irish)
The Keel Row
Blow the Wind Southerly
The Ash Grove
Endearing Young Charms
The Rising of The Lark
Scarboro’ Fair
Ye Banks and Ye Braes
Drink to Me Only
LIGHT MUSIC
Moon River
My Heart Will go on from the film “Titanic”
Bright Eyes Mike Batt
Cavatina
Over The Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz Harold Arlen
The Greatest Love of All Michael Masser
Can You Read My Mind? from Superman John Williams
Close To You Burt Bacharach
Always Something There to Remind Me Burt Bacharach
When You Wish Upon a Star from Pinocchio Washington & Harline
Jazz Etudes Bill Holcombe
Gymnopedie
Walking in the Air (Theme from “The Snowman”) Howard Blake
SHOW TUNES
What Kind of Fool am I? from Stop the World
Love Unspoken from The Merry Widow
Younger Than Springtime from South Pacific
Maria from West Side Story
I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady
On My Own from Les Misérables
Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
I Don’t Know How To Love Him
Memory
Love Changes Everything
Send In The Clowns
I Feel Pretty
America
OPERA
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Handel
Musetta’s Waltz Puccini
Intermezzo from “Cavalleria Rusticana” Mascagni
The Pearl Fishers’ Duet Bizet
Minuet from L’Arlésienne Bizet
Carmen Entr’acte from Act III Bizet
O mio babbino caro Puccini
Arietta from Romeo & Juliet Gounod
Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffmann Offenbach
Drinking Song from La Traviata Verdi
Flower Duet from Lakmé Delibes
Là Ci Darem from Don Giovanni Mozart
La Donne è Mobile from Rigoletto Verdi
Non Pìu Andrai from Marriage of Figaro Mozart
Oh My Beloved Father from Gianni Schicchi Puccini