Catriona Ryan

Catriona Ryan was a scholarship student with Doris Keogh at the Royal Irish Academy of Music. She went on to pursue undergraduate flute and piccolo studies at the Royal Northern College, England, with Trevor Wye, Richard Davies (BBC Philharmonic Orchestra) and Patricia Morris (BBC Symphony Orchestra). Upon graduation Catriona was offered a position of sub-principal flute and principal piccolo with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, a position which she continues to hold and enjoy to this day. Outside the orchestra Catriona has acted as tutor to the woodwind section of the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland and to the flute section of the NYOI under-eighteens. She has appeared as a soloist, chamber musician and adjudicator and performs regularly with the Orchestra of St Cecilia and the Irish Film Orchestra.