Catriona McDermid
Bassoon, Recorder
Catriona McDermid leads a varied career as a modern and period instrument bassoonist and keen educator. She performs regularly as principal bassoonist with the UK’s leading period instrument ensembles, including The English Concert, English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Irish Baroque Orchestra and Dunedin Consort.
She is an equally passionate chamber musician and a member of the first ever BBC New Generation Baroque Ensemble, Ensemble Molière, with whom she explores a particular passion for French baroque music. As a soloist, Catriona is a former Handel House Talent artist and gives solo recitals with her colleagues from Ensemble Molière. Catriona plays a whole variety of historical bassoons, from baroque and classical through to romantic and twentieth-century bassoons, in both French and German systems.
Catriona is also in demand as a modern bassoonist, playing guest principal with orchestras such as London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and RTÉ Symphony Orchestra. She is a member of the wind quintet Magnard Ensemble and is a former Countess of Munster recital artist.
Strongly believing in the importance of education and community work, Catriona regularly works on and leads a whole variety of projects, most recently Ensemble Moliere’s early years workshop, The King’s Animals. Catriona is also an avid arranger and has several pieces published with both Wonderful Winds and Alry Publications.
