Catherina Lee is one of the most gifted and promising violinists to have emerged from Queensland, Australia. She gave her first public recital at the age of nine and made her orchestral debut at 13 with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.

At 15, she was accepted into the class of renowned violinist and pedagogue Gerhard Schulz, former member of the Alban Berg Quartet, at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She was subsequently selected to be mentored by internationally acclaimed soloist Janine Jansen in Sion, Switzerland.

A commanding and sensitive chamber musician, Catherina Lee has appeared alongside Steven Isserlis, Kim Kashkashian, Philippe Graffin, Wilfried Strehle, Justus Grimm, Rick Stotijn, David Waterman, Garfield Jackson and Hyungki Joo. In 2020, she collaborated with composer Thomas Larcher on his work Madhares, later performing it at the Ernen Festival.

As a soloist, she has performed with numerous orchestras across Europe and Australia, including Göttinger Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra, Vienna Ensemble, Wiener Akademische Philharmoniker, Junge Philharmonie Wien and Camerata Orphica Festival Orchestra.

She performs on a GB Guadagnini, Turin, circa 1771, generously on loan from a private sponsor.