Australian flutist Catherine Gregory, winner of the Pro Musicis International Award, enjoys a dynamic career as a soloist, ensemble player and teaching artist. 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.”

Catherine, who first came to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar, is a sought-after recitalist and chamber musician, having given performances at Carnegie Hall, 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, the affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall, and served as Co-Artistic Director of the group from 2017-2020.

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. To learn more about this new project, click here. 

Committed to nurturing the next generation of young artists, Catherine has established herself as an accomplished pedagogue, having served as visiting Flute Lecturer at Lawrence University in Wisconsin, and as the flute faculty member for the Decoda Chamber Music Festival and the Emerging Composers Intensive. She has given masterclasses and led residencies at leading music schools internationally, from The Tianjin Juilliard School, to Curtis, to the Guildhall School in London, the Queensland Conservatorium (Australia), Eastman, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory (Singapore), and The Royal Conservatoire of  Scotland.

Catherine currently serves on the faculties of The Colburn School and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and is also the newly appointed Director of the Gluck Fellowship Program, leading the UCLA Gluck Fellows in their Music Ensembles to engage, connect and share live chamber music performances at non-traditional venues all around the city of Los Angeles.

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.

Photo Credit: Kevin Hsu

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