Catrin (Harpist) Professional harpist available for weddings and private events!

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Price Guide

The guide prices below are for events in Windsor, Berkshire. Outside this area extra travel expenses will apply. Please get in touch for an accurate quote.
up to 1 hour: £325
up to 2 hours: £375
up to 3 hours: £434
More than 3 hours (wedding ceremony/drinks reception): £496
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About / Biography

Catrin graduated from the Royal College of Music, London in July 2016 with BMus Hons Degree and graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, London with MA Distinction with professors Karen Vaughan and Skaila Kanga. Originating from South Wales she is fluent in the Welsh language and won Outstanding Young Musician of the Valleys. In 2015 she went on to win the prestigious Nansi Richards Scholarship. Her previous teacher, Claire Jones is the Former Official Harpist to HRH Prince Charles. Catrin has been privileged to play for The Queen on her diamond jubilee tour and has played for HRH Prince Charles on several occasions. She has also played for the Duke of Edinburgh at
Windsor Castle.

Catrin has performed in many orchestras from a young age including the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and Wessex Youth Orchestra who won the Best Youth Orchestra in Britain leading to a performance at Birmingham Symphony Hall and The Royal Albert Hall. She played extensively with the Royal College of Music Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras, and also the Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra with conductors such as John Wilson, Sir Roger Norrington, Semyon Bychkov, James Newton Howard, Yan Pascal Tortelier and Martin Andre and has recorded in Abbey Road Studios. She is a member of the Woman of the World Orchestra who perform at the Royal Festival Hall conducted by Sue Perkins and introduced by Sandi Tovisg, along with Sister Sledge and Bonnie Langford. Additionally she performed with acclaimed composer and conductor
Sir Karl Jenkins at St Davids Hall Cardiff as well the Light of Music Orchestra, Orion orchestra, London international orchestra at Cadogan Hall. She is also a member of the London Welsh Harp Quartet which was aired on S4C on Boxing Day 2015 on the Welsh programme "Noson Llawen”. In February 2017 Catrin performed live on Manoto TV on their show ‘Stage’ with contestant Arash, which was aired to millions around the world, broadcasted from Wimbledon Studios (Iranian Xfactor).


Catrin has also performed at the Royal Albert Hall, National Gallery, the V&A museum, the Science Museum, the British Museum, the Houses of Parliament, Birmingham Symphony Hall, St James’ Church Piccadilly, Gloucester Cathedral, St David’s Cathedral, and the Berlin Konzerthaus. She has performed the Handel Harp Concerto, and the Boieldieu Harp Concerto with the Rhondda Symphony Orchestra and also with the Cygnes Orchestra of London. Catrin has a passion for musical theatre and as a member of the London Musical Theatre Orchestra she has performed more than 15 west end musicals including the Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, Chess, The Sound of Music, Jesus Christ Superstar, Candide, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Carousel, Sweeney Todd, Legally Blonde, Les Miserables and Ragtime.

She has recently performed in the LMTO’s first professional concert of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s State Fair at the Cadogan Hall alongside Wendi Peters (Coronation Street), Clive Carter (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Wicked), Richard Fleeshman (Legally Blonde The Musical), Emma Hatton (Elphaba in Wicked, We Will Rock You), Oliver Saville (Fiyero in Wicked, Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Enjolras in The Les Miserables Film), Celinde Schoenmaker (Fantine in Les Miserables Christine in The Phantom of the Opera), and Anthony Wise. The second professional concert of The Christmas Carol in December 2016 ran at the Lyceum Theatre (home of the Lion King) and featured Robert Lindsay (My Family tv Show), Fred Anderson, Madalena Alberto (Evita, Les Miserables), Carrie Hope Fletcher (Les Miserables, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), Giovanna Fletcher (Wife of Tom Fletcher- Mc Fly, Author), and Hugh Maynard (Lion King, We Will Rock You, Miss Saigon, Sister Act). Both concerts received many 5* and 4* reviews. The most recent concert with the LMTO was at the London Palladium, performing the UK Premier of Honeymoon in Vegas conducted by the composer himself- Jason Robert Brown. The show featured Maxwell Caulfield, Samantha Barks, Arthur Darvill, Rosemary Ashe, Simon Lipkin and Nicolas Colicos.


Catrin also performed in Musicals such as Sunset Boulevard at the Bridewell Theatre, Sweeney Todd at Imperial College, A Chorus Line at the Greenwood theatre, The Infinite Bridge at RCM’s Britten Theatre, Ragtime at Bishopsgate Institute, Shakespeare's The Winters Tale with the company Moving Stories at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall, South Pacific at St. James’ church in Guernsey and Oklahoma at the Gordon Craig Theatre.

Catrin is currently a dep on the Phantom of the Opera in London’s west end (since 1st October 2018). As well as a passion for Musical theatre, Catrin has a passion for teaching. Catrin teaches privately on a weekly basis all around London to all ages and has worked as an Apprenticeship at Morley College for the Centre for Young Musicians. She is currently a Harp and Violin teacher at the A to G Music School in Sutton on Sundays, and harp teacher at the Kew Green Preparatory School in Kew Gardens.


Catrin is an Assistant Harp teacher at the Brecon Harp Course (2011 - 2017), and has performed along side Gwenan Gibbard, Harriet Earis, Katherine Thomas, and Hannah Stone. Catrin was also Assistant teacher on Claire Jones’ International Music School 2017/2018. Catrin has experience leading classes and rehearsals, doing group projects, leading workshops and teaching Trinity and ABRSM grade examinations. Her goal is to make the harp available to children at all schools in London, as it is a beautiful instrument which is not taught at many schools in England. Catrin also loves to teach the violin and inspires pupils to play in orchestras, ensembles, and many concerts.

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Location

Based in Windsor, Berkshire

Will travel up to 200 miles
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Popular Classical

Softly Awakes My Heart (Mon Coeur S’ouvre a ta Voix) from “Samson and Delilah”, Act II -

Saint-Saens

Poem - Z. Fibich arr. C. Marshall

La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) - Debussy

Arabesque no.1 - Debussy

Rusalka’s Song to the Moon - A. Dvorak

Moonlight Sonata - L.V Beethoven arr. D. Burton

Ave Maria - F. Schubert

Canon in D - J. Pachelbel

I Giorni - Ludovico Einaudi

Carmen; Habanera - Bizet arr. John Thomas

Popular Music

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

Stairway to Heaven - Jimmy Page/Robert Plant arr. D. Ice

Moon River - Henry Mancini arr. D.W Fulton

Over The Rainbow (From “The Wizard of Oz”) H. Arlen arr. P. Baker

From This Moment On - Shania Twain/ R. J. Lange

Tammy - Jay Livingtson/Ray Evans

The Wedding Song (There is Love) - N. P. Stookey

The Prayer - C. B. Sager/D. Foster

The Rose - A. McBroom

The Wind Beneath My Wings - L. Henley/J. Silbar

My Own True Love (Tara Theme) - M. Steiner

Time To Say Goodbye (Con Te Partiro) - F. Sartori

Lady - Lionel Richie

Rainrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head - B. Bacharach

Let It Be Me - G. Becaud

A Summer Place - M. Steiner

Send In The Clowns - S. Sondheim

Sunrise, Sunset - J. Bock

Danny Boy - arr. M. Heulyn

Brian Boru’s March- arr. M. Heulyn

Greensleeves - arr. M. Heulyn

My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose - arr. M. Heulyn

Scarborough Fair - arr. M. Heulyn

O’er the Sea to Skye - arr. M. Heulyn

Music from Pride and Prejudice - D. Marianelli

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - J. Lennon/P. McCartney

Musical Theatre

Angel of Music - A. L. Webber

Think of Me - A. L. Webber

Music of The Night - A. L. Webber

The Phantom of the Opera - A. L. Webber

All I Ask of You - A. L. Webber

Memory - A. L. Webber

Tell Me On A Sunday - A. L. Webber

Pie Jesu - A. L. Webber

I Don’t Know How To Love Him - A. L. Webber

On My Own (Les Mis) - C-H. Schoenberg

Bring Him Home (Les Mis) - C-H. Schoenberg

Do You Hear the People Sing (Les Mis) -C-H. Schoenberg

I Dreamed a Dream (Les Mis) - C-H. Schoenberg

Castle on a Cloud (Les Mis) - C-H. Schoenberg

Drink with Me (Les Mis) - C-H. Schoenberg

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables (Les Mis) - C-H. Schoenberg

Hymns and Wedding Music

Abide with Me - W. H. Monk

All Glory, Laud, And Honor - M. Teschner

All Hail The Power of Jesus’ Name - O. Holden

Amazing Grace

All People That On Earth Do Dwell - L. Bourgeois

Artsa Alinu

Ave Maria - F. Schubert

Bridal March from Lohengrin (Here Comes The Bride) R. Wagner

Be Thou My Vision

Blest Be The Tie That Binds - H. G. Naegeli

Christ The Lord Is Risen Today/Jesus Christ Is Risen Today - L. Davidica

The Church’s One Foundation - S. S. Wesley

Come, Christians, Join To Sing

Come, Thou Almighty King - F. Giardini

Fairest Lord Jesus Crusaders’ Hymn

Faith Of Our Fathers - H. F. Hemy

For The Beauty Of The Earth As With Gladness Men Of Old - C. Kocher

I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord - A. Williams

Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah - J. Hughes

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty - J. B. Dykes

Hava Nagila

Hevenu Shalom

Hine Ma Tov

Jacob’s Ladder

Jesus Loves Me - W. B. Bradbury

Kum Ba Yah

Kozatzke

L’ cha Dodi

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God - M. Luther

Morning Has Broken

Nearer, My God, To Thee - L. Mason

Now The Day Is Over - J. Barnby

O God, Our Help In Ages Past - W. Croft

O Perfect Love - J. Barnby

The Prayer - C. B. Sager/D. Foster Rock Of Ages - T. Hastings

The Rose - A. McBroom

Stand Up For Jesus - G. J. Webb

This Is My Father’s World

The Wedding Song (There is Love) - N. P. Stookey

We Gather Together Prayer Of Thanksgiving

What A Friend We Have In Jesus - C. C. Converse

When Morning Gilds The Skies - J. Barnby

Trumpet Tune - H. Purcell

Trumpet Voluntary - H. Purcell

Classical

Phantasie in C Minor for Harp op.35 - Louis Spohr

La Source op. 44 - Hasselmans

Sonata no. 1 - John Parry

Sonata no. 6 - F. J. Naderman

Rondoletto from Sonata no. 1 - F. J. Naderman

Sonata no.2- F. J. Naderman

Ecossaise Rondoletto from Sonata no.4 - Naderman

Air with Variations and Rondo Pastorale - A. Eberl/W.A. Mozart

Etude no. 1 - F. J. Dizi

Etude no. 21 - F. J. Dizi

Grande Sonata in Eb - Dussek

Etude De Concert Au Matin - M. Tournier

Quartre Preludes - M. Tournier

Etude no. 12 (Prelude from Violin Partita No. 3) - Bach arr. Grandjany

Etude no. 3 (Sarabande from Violin Partita No.1) - Bach arr. Grandjany

Impromptu for Harp - R. Gliere

Fantaisie Sur Un Theme De L’Opera Eugene Onegin - P. Tchaikovsky arr. M.

Agazarian

Harp Concerto - A. F. Boieldieu

Etude De Concert - F. Godefroid

Fantaisie Sur un Theme de J. Haydn - M. Grandjany

Impromptu-Caprice - G. Pierne

Passacaille - G. F. Handel

Sonata for Harp in C Minor - Dussek

Jazz

Over The Rainbow (From “The Wizard of Oz”) H. Arlen arr. P. Baker

My Favourite Things - Rogers and Hammerstein

Misty- Erroll Garner arr. Skaila Kanga

Moon River - Henry Mancini arr. Skaila Kanga

All the things you are- Jerome Kern

Welsh Music

Dros y Dwr I Draeth LLanstephan - arr. M. Heulyn

Bugeilio’r Gwenith Gwyn (Watching the White Wheat) - John Thomas

Myfanwy - arr. M. Heulyn

Dafydd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock) - arr. M. Heulyn

Llongau Caernarfon - arr. M. Heulyn

Sosban Fach - arr. M. Heulyn

Merch Megan - O. B. Dussek

L’Adieu Du Menestrel Ffarwel Y Telynor - John Thomas

Pedair Waltz o Gymru; Llwyn Onn, Cader Idris, Merch Megan, Wyres Megan - arr. M.

Heulyn

Huna Blentyn - arr. M. Heulyn

Hiraeth - arr. M. HeulynLisa Lan - arr. M. Heulyn

Ar Lan Y Mor - arr. M. Heulyn

CONCERT REPERTOIRE

Classical Music

Phantasie in C Minor for Harp op.35 - Louis Spohr

La Source op. 44 - Hasselmans

Grande Sonata in Eb - Dussek

Etude no. 12 (prelude from Violin Partita No. 3) - Bach arr. Grandjany

Impromptu for Harp - R. Gliere

Harp Concerto - A. F. Boieldieu

Harp Concerto - Handel

Impromptu-Caprice - G. Pierne

Grand Sonata- Dussek

Romantic Music

Fantaisie op. 133 - Cesare Galeotti

Piece Symphonique - H. Renie

Piece de Concert- H. Busser

Fantaisie Sur Un Theme De L’Opera Eugene Onegin - P. Tchaikovsky arr. M. Agazarian

The Lark- Glinka

Contemporary Music

Sonata for Harp - Hindemith

Etude De Concert Au Matin - M. Tournier

Sarabande Pour Harpe - P. Gaubert

Sundance from ‘Sante Fe Suite’ - W. Mathias

Perlau yn y Glaw- Mared Emlyn

Technical Info

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One chair or stool in a well lit space

Performance Info

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Set up: 30 minutes

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