Catherine Duncan is a Scottish pianist currently based in London. She is active both as a soloist and
chamber musician and gives regular performances throughout the UK, and is the founder and artistic
director of the Three Rivers Festival. She is passionate about music as an instrument of dialogue and
about classical performance as a powerful means of bringing people together. Catherine loves to
curate programmes which allow works to be heard with a fresh perspective and which draw upon little
explored links between composers.
As a semi-finalist of the BBC Scotland Young Classical Competition she featured on BBC Radio
Scotland playing Villa-Lobos and Ginastera. She has given solo recitals in Rome, Dunblane and in
Birmingham performing a programme which included solo works by Bach and Rachmaninov, and
culminated in Rachmaninov’s Transcription of Bach’s Violin Partita in E major.
Catherine is currently completing her Artist Masters at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in
London where she has received a scholarship to undertake an Artist Diploma in Piano
Accompaniment, continuing her studies with Carole Presland. Catherine is very grateful to Help
Musicians for awarding her the Henry Richardson award this year, and to the Sir James Caird
Travelling Scholarships Trust for their generous support towards her studies. Before moving to
London, Catherine completed her undergraduate studies with Alasdair Beatson at the Royal
Birmingham Conservatoire where she was supported by the Malcolm Bullock Memorial Trust Award.