Caterina McEvoy

Caterina McEvoy is an interdisciplinary composer / sound artist / musician based between Yorkshire and her native home Scotland working across various forms, including
electroacoustic music / composition, sound art, improvised music, field recording, dance film soundtracks, and installation. She regularly collaborates with choreographers, dance film makers, visual artists and other musicians.  Caterina’s research-led practice focuses on environmental field recordings (EFR), soundscape composition, & multi-channel gallery installations, and recent academic publications have featured alongside Cosmo Sheldrake and Jez Riley French. As a percussionist, and flamenco guitarist she regularly tours throughout the UK at venues and festivals including Edinburgh Fringe festival with Scottish based dance company Slanjayvah Danza.

She has exhibited at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, at Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi and at Misericordia Archives (Venice, 2019). Other projects include solo compositions aired on The Lake Radio, (Denmark, 2015), BBC Radio Leeds, and performances with Stems who mix classical and cinematic art rock and work with both silent film / visuals.

In January 2021, Caterina received a Sound and Music Composer Award and was awarded round 9 DYCP funding through Arts Council England to develop new work using environmental field recordings in residency with Invisible Flock. Caterina completed recent mentorship with acclaimed Scottish virtuoso classical guitarist and composer Simon Thacker through TRACS – Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland (TRACS) which supports the development of practitioners of traditional music, song, dance, storytelling and Scots and Gaelic language.

During her career Caterina has collaborated on 30+ projects with renowned artists: Alfia Nakipbekova (Flux and Flow), Slanjayvah Danza (6 Feet, 3 Shoes) Arts Council England,  University of Sheffield (Sound Junction), British Film Institute / Live Cinema UK (Stems),  Phil Sanger, ASMbly Lab (AXIOMATIC), The Lake Radio, Denmark, Elise Rhode-Hansen, Theatre in the Mill (Snapshots/A Trio of New Works /Whispers), Freedom Studios, Sally Goldsmith (Big Sky-Stories from the Edge), West Yorkshire Playhouse,  Dr Franziska Schroeder & Belfast Queens University (Big Ears- AHRC), Wendy Houstoun & Matteo Fargion, The Hepworth Art Gallery, Artists North, Phoenix Dance Theatre, NSCD, Leeds City College, Cardiff University, University of Derby. Publications:  Bruce Lee’s Cultural Legacies, Musicology Research Journal, Volume 4, Issue 9, Cultural & Cross-cultural Perspectives, University of Derby. She regularly works as a reviewer for “Audio Mostly” – IEM / University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria.