Catrin Finch
(born 1980) is a Welsh harpist, arranger and composer
Finch was born in Llanon, Ceredigion, and began learning the harp at the age of six. Her mother is German and her father English, but she is a fluent Welsh speaker.[2] By the age of nine, she had passed her Grade VIII harp examination.[3] She was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the age of ten, becoming the youngest of its members to play at The Proms.[4] She studied harp with Elinor Bennett, who would become her mother-in-law, before attending the Purcell School, a specialist music school for children in Hertfordshire. She continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London where she studied harp with Skaila Kanga.[5][3][6]
During the 1990s, Finch won several competitions for young harpists, including the Nansi Richards Prize and the Blue Riband at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.[5]
In 2003, Finch married the music and television producer Hywel Wigley, son of the former Plaid Cymru leader Lord Dafydd Wigley and the harpist Elinor Bennett.[6][15] They have two children together. The couple formally separated in 2017.
In February 2018 Finch announced on that she had been diagnosed with Grade 3 breast cancer.[16] She was given the all-clear in October 2018 following treatment at Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff.
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