catherine
Catherine has played the harp for over 18 years, and is an active freelance harpist living in Seattle, Washington. She is equally at home performing with orchestras, playing chamber music, teaching, and providing music for weddings and special events.
Recently, Catherine was part of the harp section for the 2009 Seattle Opera production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, and served as extra harp for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and the Britt Festival Orchestra. She served as principal harpist with the Sarasota Orchestra during the 2007-2008 season. Catherine has also held positions with the Yucatan Symphony in Mexico, Singapore Symphony, and Dayton Philharmonic. From 2005-2006 Catherine was assistant principal harp with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra in Brazil. With the orchestra, she toured South America, performing in the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, as well as theatres in Córdoba, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, Florianópolis and Santos.
As a winner of the Ima Hogg National Young Artists Competition, Catherine debuted with the Houston Symphony Orchestra in 2001, performing the Harp Concerto by Ginastera. She has also appeared as a soloist with the Kingsport Symphony in Tennessee, the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra in Colorado and the Shepherd School of Music Chamber Orchestra. In 2006, along with Paula Page and Jeanne Norton, Catherine played a triple harp concerto by Kevin Kaska with the Doctors Orchestra of Houston. She has also appeared in shows for artists such as Neil Sedaka and Frank Sinatra, Jr.
Catherine appears on a New World Records release of the world premiere performance of “In the White Silence” by John Luther Adams, and has also performed his solo harp music at the 2006 National Harp Conference in San Francisco, CA.
She received degrees in harp performance from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Rice University, where she was a student of Alice Chalifoux, Yolanda Kondonassis and Paula Page. Catherine also attended the Interlochen Arts Academy, where she studied with Joan Raeburn-Holland. Before that, she was a student of Ann Hobson-Pilot and Marjorie Hartzell.
Visit her website at www.catherinecase.com.
photo by Ashley Mitchel