Catherine Alsey is a British violinist from Kent, currently in her third year of undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music, where she is studying with Professor Ani Schnarch. While at the RCM she has also received individual lessons from visiting professors David Park, Eszter Haffner and Peter Herresthal. She attended the Royal College of Music Junior Department from 2018-2020, studying with Professor Schnarch, and during her time there she was a finalist in the Peter Morrison Concerto Competition and won the Angela Bull Competition.

Catherine attended the New Virtuosi International Violin Mastercourse in 2021 and in 2022 won a scholarship to attend the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine, USA.

In August 2022 Catherine went on tour to Poreč, Croatia as part of the British – Croatian Festival Orchestra. Catherine was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYO) from 2018 - 2021 and was Principal of the second violin section in their performance at the BBC Proms in Summer 2021. Highlights from her time in NYO include performing at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, and in the Young Euro Classic Festival at the Konzerthaus in Berlin.

More recently, Catherine is now working with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain on the Creative Music Team, devising and delivering workshops for teenagers across the country in a series of NYO Inspire Days and across the Schools Tours throughout this year.

Catherine also has an active role in RCM’s Sparks programme, which involves teaching music locally and working creatively with the early years and young people in the community. Catherine plays on a Giovan Paolo Maggini