Catrin Morris Jones

Stylish Harpist with much experience and always in demand

Catrin Morris Jones comes from Anglesey, North Wales. After completing a Performers’ Course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she studied with David Watkins, she began her Postgraduate Studies at the royal Academy of Music with Skaila Kanga, from which she graduated in 1994. Catrin has performed in numerous West End shows including My Fair Lady, South Pacific (Royal National Theatre), The Secret Garden (Royal Shakespeare Company), Napoleon, The King and I, Notré Dame de Paris and Oliver! Catrin is currently a deputy on the Phantom of the Opera and The Producers.

Her recent orchestral work has included performances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, the Hallé, Southern Sinfonia, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Glyndebourne Touring Orchestra, English Touring Orchestra, the Opera São Carlos in Lisbon, The Royal Shakespeare Company, London City Ballet, Moscow City Ballet and the Northern Ballet Company. Recital performances have included Mozart’s Concerto for Flute and Harp in the Barbican Hall, Debussy’s Dance Sacrée et Dance Profane at the Minehead Festival and a world Premier performance of Adam Gorb’s Harps of Gold, for harp quintet, at the Wigmore Hall.

In the summer of 1993 Catrin was the only British musician to successfully audition for a place in the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, with whom she toured Germany, Spain, Austria, Italy and Denmark, working with conductors such as Valery Gergiev and the late Sir George Solti. Catrin has performed at many prestigious venues including Banqueting House, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Kensington Palace, the National Portrait Gallery, The Royal Society in Pall Mall in addition to many Livery Halls in the City of London. Catrin currently lives in Hertfordshire and enjoys performing at beautiful local hotels and Manor Houses as well as private homes and gardens.

Catrin is a member of the flute and harp duo Arabesque.