Catherine Edwards studied the piano with Phyllis Sellick and Vlado Perlemuter and the organ with Ralph Downes and Gillian Weir. She pursues a varied career on both instruments, performing, broadcasting and recording as chamber pianist, accompanist and soloist. She performs regularly with singers and instrumentalists including Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Willard White, Paul Barritt and Moray Welsh, and among her many CDs are two prize-winning recordings of Mendelssohn and Chopin with the Danish cellist Henrick Brendstrup.

Her chamber music experience with groups such as Capricorn, The Nash Ensemble, Endymion and Composers' Ensembles includes standard and contemporary repertoire and she has worked closely with composers such as Boulez, Berio, Steve Reich and John Adams.

Solo performances include many BBC recordings and appearances in London's Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre and with the London Symphony Orchestra in the Barbican Concert Hall, as well as festivals throughout Britain and elsewhere.