Australian-born flutist Catherine Gregory enjoys a dynamic and international career that resists categorization – she is equally at home as soloist, ensemble player, educator and artist citizen. Winner of the 2018 Pro Musicis International Award, Catherine has performed music old and new across the globe from Alice Tully Hall in New York, to London’s Milton Court, Hamburg’s 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.”

Catherine has established herself as a highly sought-after recitalist and chamber musician. She has appeared at the Chamber Music Societies of Lincoln Center and Philadelphia, Camerata Pacifica, Caramoor, Moab Music Festival, Bay Chamber Festival, Við Djúpið Festival in Iceland, and with the Southern Cross Soloists. She has also 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 released her debut album Vent, together with pianist, David Kaplan, on the Bright Shiny Things label in 2023, featuring premieres by Gabriela Lena Frank and Timo Andres alongside music by David Lang, Schubert and Prokofiev.

 In 2025-26, The Experiential Orchestra has named Catherine a Creative Partner, for which she curates and performs a special program entitled “Toward the Sea/ Whale Songs”, paying homage to the beauty and mysteries of the sea, including works by Takemitsu, Ravel, George Crumb, Grace Williams, Michelle Ross, and James Blachly.

 Catherine’s passion for the potential of music to forge direct and impactful connections with all communities animates her creative initiatives. Her Just Breathe project began during the pandemic as a series of interactive performance workshops for cancer patients, providers and caregivers that explore the intersection of breath and music. Since then, Catherine has developed Just Breathe into a commissioning project that similarly explores this theme, including works for flute, percussion and voice by leading composers such as Juhi Bansal, Clarice Assad, Viet Cuong, Timo Andres, Allison Loggins-Hull and inti figgis-vizueta, which are performed together with percussionist Ian Rosenbaum and soprano Ariadne Greif.

 Since 2015, Catherine has been a member of Decoda, the Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall -- an innovative chamber music collective that performs, teaches, and leads creative projects around the globe. She participates in numerous projects each season, from annual performances in Carnegie Hall to songwriting workshops in prisons, and each summer serves as the flute faculty of the Decoda Chamber Music Festival in North Carolina. Catherine performs on Decoda’s GRAMMY-nominated debut album, which was recorded at the Tippet Rise Art Center and released to critical acclaim in 2024, and she is thrilled to have been named a Co-Artistic Director of the group for 2025-2028.

 Committed to nurturing the next generation of young artists, Catherine is a Lecturer in Flute and Woodwind Chamber Music at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music beginning in 2025. As the Director of the UCLA Gluck Fellows Program since 2024, she also leads an elite group of fellows to engage, connect and share live chamber music performances at non-traditional venues all around Los Angeles. She has been a faculty member at The Colburn School Conservatory since 2023, where she mentors chamber ensembles and the Salonen Conducting Fellows in preparation for community performances. She previously served as Lecturer in Flute at Lawrence Conservatory in Wisconsin and at Moravian College in Pennsylvania, in addition to giving masterclasses all over the world, including at the Queensland Conservatorium (Australia), Curtis, Eastman, The Tianjin Juilliard School, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory (Singapore), The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and Guildhall School of Music (London).

 First venturing to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar, Catherine is the recipient of numerous awards, as well as having graduated with First Class Honors and the University Medal from the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University (Australia). Catherine earned her Artist Diploma at Carnegie Mellon University, and was an Ensemble Connect fellow at the Juilliard School and Carnegie Hall from 2012-2014. Her principal teachers were Gerhard Mallon, Alberto Almarza, and Jeanne Baxtresser.

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.

Photo Credit: Anna Azarov

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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