USA-born hornist Catherine Eisele currently lives and performs in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is pursuing her Künstlerische Ausbildung (KA) Diplom at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main with Esa Tapani.
Catherine began her musical studies with the piano at the age of six, adding the horn several years later. She attended the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia performing in the endowed Weinstein Advanced Study Woodwind Quintet. With the Quintet she performed at events in the greater Philadelphia area and competed in the Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition. For five summers Catherine attended Marrowstone Summer Music in Bellingham, WA both as a student and Fellow studying with Dale Clevenger and Alice Render. In 2008 she completed her Bachelor of Music in Horn Performance as a student of Randy Gardner at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (Ohio, USA).
In July 2008 Catherine traveled to Mexico City with the Cultures in Harmony Project XII "Puentes Musicales" and led over two hundred fifty musicians from the Youth Orchestra Program of Mexico City in a week of rehearsals, lessons, master classes, concerts, cultural dialogue forums, workshops, and recitals.
Since moving to Germany she has performed throughout the country, most notably with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, the Philharmonie des Nationen and regularly with the Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg. Catherine is also an avid chamber musician and has participated in the premieres of several solo and orchestral works including Thomas Lloyd’s setting of Wordsworth’s sonnet “The World is Too Much with Us” for choir, horn and piano, commissioned for her.
Catherine has attended the 2006 Barry Tuckwell Institute, the 15th Interpretation Hornclass in Nové Strašecí, Czech Republic and the 2007 and 2008 Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy. In July and August 2009, Catherine toured China performing in Shanghai, Nanjing, Tianjin and Beijing as the hornist of the Young Euro Classic China-Deutschland Festivalensemble. The tour concluded with a sold-out concert at the Berlin Konzerthaus as part of the 2009 Young Euro Classic Festival series.
Originally from Samuel Barber's native West Chester, Pennsylvania, Catherine has traveled and performed extensively throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Never one to turn down a bargain plane ticket, she is often planning her next international adventure. Her other interests include yoga, photography, bookmaking and travel journalism.
Catherine Eisele, aus den Vereinigten Staaten, studiert mit Esa Tapani Horn an der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main. Vor ihrem Umzug nach Frankfurt, machte sie ihr Bachelor of Music in Horn Performance an der University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music mit Professor Randy Gardner. Catherine nahm teil in den Premieren von mehreren Solo-und Orchester-Werken, darunter Thomas Lloyd's Festlegung von Wordsworth's Sonnett "The World is Too Much with Us" für Chor, Horn und Klavier, für sie im Jahr 2005 geschrieben.
Catherine nahm teil in der Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition und fünfmal in die Marrowstone Musik Festival in Bellingham, Washington, USA. Sie spielte auch bei der 2006 Barry Tuckwell Institut, dem 15. Interpretation Hornclass in Nové Strašecí, Tschechische Republik und die 2007 und 2008 Opera Theater-und Musikfestival von Lucca, Italien. Im Juli 2008 reiste Catherine nach Mexico-City mit der Organisation „Cultures in Harmony“ zu lehren, betreuen und spielen mit dem Orquesta Filarmónica Juvenil de la Ciudad de México.
Ursprünglich aus Pennsylvania, in der nähe von Philadelphia, Catherine spielte und reiste gern und oft durch Nordamerika, Europa und Asien. Zusätzlich zu reisen, ihre sonstigen Interessen gehören Yoga, Buchmacher und Reisejournalismus.
