Catherine Milledge comes from South Wales.  After graduating with a first in Classics and English from Jesus College, Oxford she went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama aided by scholarships from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and Sir Henry Richardson Awards.  Here she achieved a distinction for her postgraduate diploma followed by the MMus degree in solo performance. She subsequently won the Birmingham Accompanist of the Year award as well as prizes for accompaniment in the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition and at the Royal Overseas League annual music competition. Recitals in venues including Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room accompanying many different singers and instrumentalists followed, in association not only with the Countess of Munster Trust and the Royal Overseas League but also with the Tillett Trust, Kirckman Concert Society, Making Music and the Songmakers’ Almanac Young Songmakers programme. A concert in the Park Lane Group recital series prompted the Times reviewer to describe her as “an outstanding young professional… Catherine Milledge was one of the real discoveries of the evening and of the season”. She also gave many concerts in schools, hospitals and community venues as a member of the Live Music Now scheme.

Since then Catherine has enjoyed a busy career as an accompanist and a member of various chamber groups. In addition to performances at the major London venues she has given concerts at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, St George’s Brandon Hill in Bristol and Latitude, as well as other music festivals and societies around the country and outside the UK.  Recordings include the critically acclaimed discs Smile and Glass with saxophonist Amy Dickson.

Now living in Cardiff, Catherine works as an accompanist and collaborative piano tutor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and has performed frequently in the college’s concert series as an accompanist, in chamber ensembles and as a concerto soloist. She has also welcomed the opportunity to give more recitals elsewhere in Wales at the Presteigne, Aberystwyth, Gregynog and Vale of Glamorgan festivals and at St David’s Hall in Cardiff.  In addition, Catherine is a piano tutor and accompanist at Cardiff University School of Music and enjoys freelance work as an orchestral pianist for Welsh National Opera and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.  Among recent engagements are a solo recital at Newport Memorial Hall, a concerto performance with the City of Cardiff Symphony Orchestra and recitals with her piano duo partner Roger Owens.