Australian-born flutist Catherine Gregory, winner of the Pro Musicis International Award, enjoys a dynamic and international career that resists categorization, distinguishing herself as a soloist, chamber musician, educator and artist citizen. Her performances of music old and new have taken her across the globe from Alice Tully Hall in New York, to London’s Milton Court, Hamburg’s new Elbphilharmonie, and the Sydney Opera House. The New York Times has called her playing “magically mysterious,” also writing that “Ms. Gregory left a deep impression… her sound rich and fully present.”

Since first venturing to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar, Catherine has established herself as a highly sought-after recitalist and chamber musician, having given performances with the Chamber Music Societies of Lincoln Center and Philadelphia, Camerata Pacifica, Caramoor, Bay Chamber Festival, Við Djúpið Festival in Iceland, and the Southern Cross Soloists. She has toured internationally with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Australian Chamber Orchestra and has played numerous cycles as Guest Principal Flute with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. Catherine is a Core-Artist of Decoda, an innovative New York chamber music collective dedicated to “making a more compassionate and connected world through music,” and she previously served as the ensemble’s Co-Artistic Director from 2017-2020. Decoda’s self-titled debut album, recorded at Tippet Rise Art Center and released in 2024, has received extensive critical acclaim. Seth Colter Walls of The New York Times wrote: “With performances of this quality, you can see why Carnegie — which just named Decoda its first affiliate ensemble — would want to continue an association with these musicians.” The album was recently nominated for a GRAMMY in the category of Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Valerie Coleman’s Revelry.

Catherine is deeply passionate about the power of music to forge direct and impactful connections with all communities. Catherine’s current project, Just Breathe, embodies her creative spirit as a commissioner of new music and artist citizen: it is both a performance of new commissions from leading composers such as Clarice Assad, Viet Cuong, Timo Andres and Juhi Bansal, as well as a series of interactive performance workshops for cancer patients, providers and caregivers that explore the intersection of breath and music. The world premiere performance of Just Breathe was recently presented by the 2024 Moab Music Festival, together with her two collaborators, percussionist Ian Rosenbaum and vocalist Ariadne Greif. To learn more about this new project, click here. 

Committed to nurturing the next generation of young artists, Catherine serves on the faculties of the Colburn School Conservatory and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. She has also been a visiting Flute Lecturer at Lawrence University in Wisconsin and has taught as the flute faculty member for the Decoda Chamber Music Festival since 2015, as well as the Hidden Valley Emerging Composers Intensive in 2023. Beyond teaching flute and chamber music, Catherine has developed a unique curriculum that prepares students to situate their artistic practice in contemporary society. She is also the newly appointed Director of the UCLA Gluck Fellowship Program, leading the elite group of fellows to engage, connect and share live chamber music performances at non-traditional venues all around Los Angeles. Catherine has overseen, led, and participated in innovative Decoda residencies at leading music schools internationally, including The Tianjin Juilliard School, Curtis Institute, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, Guildhall School in London, and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

The recipient of numerous awards, Catherine has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Brisbane City Council Emerging Artist’s Fellow, and an American Australian Association’s Dame Joan Sutherland Fund grantee.  After graduating with First Class Honors and the University Medal from the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University (Australia), Catherine earned her Artist Diploma at Carnegie Mellon University. Catherine is an alumna of Ensemble Connect: a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, the Weill Music Institute and the New York City Department of Education. Her principal teachers were Gerhard Mallon, Alberto Almarza, and Jeanne Baxtresser.

Catherine released her debut album together with pianist David Kaplan, entitled Vent, on the Bright Shiny Things label in September 2023.

 Catherine is proud to have played a Nagahara flute since 2011. When at home in Los Angeles, she loves exploring the many hiking trails, Thai restaurants, and tennis courts hidden amid the labyrinthine city.

PRESS QUOTES

" Shafer Mahoney’s “Shining River” for flute and harp was one such piece. Relentlessly pretty and mournful, it progressed like a languid ice skater, with the flute drawing widening circles over gentle chords in the harp... Ms. Gregory left a deep impression in “Shining River,” her sound rich and fully present."

- The New York Times

“…a stellar musician who brings to her performance a lifetime of practice, study, thought, imagination…”

- The New York Concert Review 

"...the (Britten) Sinfonietta, an exuberant compact work in three movements that provides wonderful opportunities for soloistic display, (was) well handled here by Catherine Gregory, flutist...the Keats setting “What Is More Gentle Than a Wind in Summer?” was particularly gorgeous, with, again, wonderful contributions from those woodwind players."

- The New York Times

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