Catriona Bourne is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist who has performed at venues and events including London Jazz Festival, Wilderness Festival, Sinfonia Smith Square, Kings Place and Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music. Book early to avoid disappointment!
She has experimented with flute and live electronics, recently performing a solo set of her own arrangements and improvisations in the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall.
Although she studied classical harp throughout school, Catriona is most excited by the opportunities to improvise and compose for the harp. She has always had an interest in folk, and combines this with her love of jazz through her original compositions.
In 2024 she released her debut album, Triquetra, in her quartet featuring Francis Tulip, Joe Bainbridge and James Owston, and commenced an 8-date album release tour supported by the UK Harp Association. The album is an impulsive dive into experimental jazz-infused folk that draws off Catriona’s Scottish heritage, exploring nostalgia for a lost past.
Catriona has worked as a session musician with a number of artists including world-jazz singer Lea Mondo, jazz fusion keys player Tsz Ching Kylie and singer-songwriter Grace Angelica, performing at venues including the Jazz Cafe, Ninety One Living Room and Crazy Coqs.
Having honed her academic knowledge of music through study at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and developed her improvisation skills in postgraduate study at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and with Tomorrow’s Warriors Jazz Strings programme, she is currently based in London.
‘Haunting Gaelic-blues… Musical fusion that is truly compelling to the ears’ (Morning Star)
‘A genuinely sublime and wholly unique perspective… There’s something about Catriona’s music that lends itself to the joy of earnest exploration’ (Blue-in-Green: Radio)
'Catriona Bourne is as much a jazz musician as any contemporary horn player' (Bebop Spoken Here)
'I have to say I am going to be doing a deep dive into more of her music as this is just beautiful' (Rebecca Vasmant, BBC R3 Round Midnight)
'A stunning album... Just when you think you have it pinned down, it slips from your grasp and finds another definition' (Fatea Magazine)
‘I don’t know if Catriona Bourne would call herself a genius, but I will… What Bourne creates transcends categories’ (Indie Boulevard Magazine)
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