Catherine earned a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Arizona State University in 2012 and completed her undergraduate music studies at the Chicago Conservatory of Music in 2010. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology.
Catherine is a member of the Mae Z. Orvis Opera Studio and is a Resident Teaching Artist with the Hawaiʻi Opera Theatre Education Department. She has performed as an outreach artist with the Hawaiʻi Opera Theatre Express education touring operas for the past eight seasons, most recently singing the roles of Queen of the Night/Pamina/Papagena in the 2024-2025 production of The Magic Flute. Other roles include Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, and Clorina in Cinderella. She also performed in the Hawaii Opera Theatre Studio 101 productions, “I’ll Be Seeing You” and “A String of Song for Sondheim”. Catherine is a soprano with the Hawaiʻi Opera Theatre chorus, most recently performing in the 2025 production of Carmen. In October of 2025, she will be premiering the role of The Love Summit in the new musical Higher! Higher! She has been a guest soprano soloist with the Hawaii Vocal Arts Ensemble, Honolulu Chorale, Festa Italiana and at Iolani Palace. Catherine also maintains a private voice studio.
Before moving to Hawaii in 2017, Catherine both performed as a soloist and worked as a private vocal instructor. She sang the role of Clorinda in Rossini’s opera La Cenerentola at the Midwest Institute of Opera in 2015, and was invited back in 2016, to sing the role of Sister Constance in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites. She also performed the role of Lady Adela in the 2013 debut production of the musical Invincible. She has sung in numerous productions with Arizona State University’s Lyric Opera Theater and as a soloist both in Phoenix and her native Chicago.