About
Caterina Isaia (Italy) is 16 and started playing cello with Prof. Marianne Chen in 2012, under whose guidance, she won, between 2013 to 2015 eighteen first prizes in National and International competitions in different cities.
Her debut took place at the age of twelve as part of the “Secco-Suardo Festival “in Bergamo, where she played, as a soloist with orchestra, Haydn Cello Concerto n.1 in C major. From 2015 Caterina studied with the cellist Monika Leskovar. In April 2016 Caterina recorded for the Italian National Television RAI2 and in October Caterina inaugurated the “Alfredo Piatti” international cello festival with a solo recital. At the age of thirteen she won the first prize at the prestigious “Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition”, in Croatia, where she was also awarded, as special prize, an invitation to perform a solo concert with the “Zagreb Chamber Orchestra” in September of the same year. Since September 2017 she was admitted as a scholar at the international school for special talents “Yehudi Menuhin School” in London under the guidance of Bartholomew LaFollette. The artistic direction of Yehudi Menuhin School chose Caterina for a tour of seven concerts in Scotland in May 2018 where she played in Edinburgh, Blair Atholl Castle, New Lanark, Eyemouth and Berwick. Caterina is the cello section leader of the Yehudi Menuhin School orchestra , which toured in Spain last October 2018 in Madrid, Valencia, Zaragoza, and Pau Casals Auditorium. She participated in masterclasses with Giovanni Sollima, Giovanni Gnocchi, Mario Brunello and Jens Peter Maintz. In April 2019 Caterina was selected for the “Mit Musik – Miteinander” project of the Kronberg Academy (Germany) as well as being selected by Ivan Monighetti to participate in the Gstaad Menuhin Academy 2019. Since 2019 Caterina is supported by the “Associazione Musica Con Le Ali”.