Catherine Rimer
- 'cello
Catherine Rimer began her studies with Emma Ferrand at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she was awarded all the chamber music prizes and continued them with Alexander Baillie and the Amadeus Quartet at the Royal Academy of Music supported by a Countess of Munster Scholarship.She completed her formal studies with Steven Doane at the Eastman School of Music, N.Y. While in America she pursued her interest in historical performance practice with lutenist Paul O'Dette and fortepianist Malcolm Bilson and won the J. C. Graue Fellowship for her Master's.
Catherine has been a member of the English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique since 1996, taking part in the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage throughout 2000. She also plays regularly with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and as guest principal with various other groups including the Classical Opera Company, Florilegium, Gabrieli Consort and Hanover Band.
From 1998-99 she was acting 'cellist of the Skampa Quartet on extensive tours of Europe and the USA and has also performed with Configure8 (strings/wind octet) on the NFMS scheme, with Orbestra in televised broadcasts from Istanbul Festival, at the Orlando Festival Holland, and the Festival of British Music.
Catherine currently teaches Baroque and Classical Cello at the Royal College of Music.