Catherine is a native of County Donegal in the North-West of Ireland. Born in 1987, her interest in music began at the age of six when she started learning piano, soon followed by cello lessons.

In 2005 Catherine was awarded the Apple Hill “Playing for Peace” scholarship and continues to return to New Hampshire to take part in the summer chamber music workshops. She has toured Asia, Europe and North America with the Irish pianist Dr John O'Connor and is currently principal cellist of the Hibernian Orchestra, Phoenix Orchestra and UCD Symphony Orchestra.

She is presently a part-time scholarship student in the Royal Irish Academy of Music studying cello under William Butt.