Selected highlights from my varied and diverse performing career as a freelance musician and composer from 1983 to present...
Catherine on Record | Artist in Residence | Classical | Soundtracks & Sessions
Soundtracks & Sessions | Production Music | Artist in Residence | Classical
Catherine on Record
Aeolus
Innovative woodwinds fused with electronics and organic sound design
Richard Kett / Catherine Shrubshall
Archipelago (64bpm)
Exotic wind instruments coalesce in a colourful tropical paradise, sustained by delicate electronics
Murmuration (60bpm)
A spatial soundscape filled with surging woodwind
Shapeshifter (69bpm)
Dreamlike, eerie woodwinds with climactic guitars and spacious sound design
Mesmeric (93bpm)
Haunting, reflective woodwinds float amongst somniferous sound design
Fractal (60bpm)
Beautiful harmonies and patterns evolve, with flowing woodwind lines and haunting electronics
Drought (84bpm)
A languid world music cue featuring ethnic wind instruments. Parched, dusty & desolate
Monsoon (84bpm)
Ethnic wind instruments and uplifting sound design celebrate the long awaited rain
Palenque (60bpm)
A warped, distorted & decayed soundscape, with tortured woodwind and edgy electronics
Elixir (108bpm)
Early music woodwinds weave a story shrouded in mystery and secrecy, with a driving beat
Wildebeest (84bpm)
A frenzied, tribal saxophone stampede fused with dramatic sound design
Algones, Station Masters - Ben Reed
Ben Reed’s third album ‘Station Masters’, is a beautifully produced album infused with the Canterbury sound. It’s out now on Gare de Nord records. Catherine’s clarinet and bass clarinet are featured on the track “Allgones"
Martin Pyne - Seven Pictures
Original improvised soundscapes featuring everything Catherine plays:
Glory Bumps - Shriekback
"On ‘Glory Bumps’ Catherine overdubbed tracked and harmonised parts with meticulous attention to detail, creating, essentially, a wind orchestra. This was a great contribution to the colour and scale of the album."
Barry Andrews - Shreikback Read More
Examples of Twelves -Riaan Vosloo
"The latest edition of the larger Examples Of Twelves ensemble is a nonet with Vosloo, Hanslip and Giles joined by Ross Stanley on Rhodes, Tori Freestone on flute, Matthew Bourne on piano, Catherine Shrubshall on clarinet, Fulvio Sigurta on trumpet and flugelhorn and finally James Allsopp on tenor and baritone saxes plus bass clarinet. The album is produced by Vosloo and guitarist Benedic Lamdin, his colleague from the band Nostalgia 77"
Ian Mann http://www.thejazzmann.com/reviews/review/examples-of-twelves-things-will-be/
Icebreaker - Trance
Catherine played this as a live performance on many occasions with Icebreaker, including New York's Lincoln Centre and the Purcell Room in London. Catherine also enjoyed recording this album at London's prestigious Abbey Road Studios.
"Trance is a kaleidoscope of pan-pipe melodies and provocative rhythms, and features Icebreaker's aggressively virtuosic sound."
- Greg Sandow, Wall Street Journal
Quoted from: http://bangonacan.org/store/music/trance
Icebreaker – Terminal Velocity
Catherine plays on all tracks of the album, however her Soprano Saxophone solo is featured on The Archangel Trip track by Gavin Bryars.
Izit
Catherine was a founder member of this Acid Jazz Band 'Izit' - there were many years of recording and touring all over the world including venues in London and New York. See the full 'Izit' discography here
Blow Job - The Powdered Rhino Horns
(Catherine & Peter Shrubshall plus guests)
"The Powdered Rhino Horns consist primarily of brother and sister Peter Shrubshall and Catherine Shrubshall. The Shrubshall's make an entire horn section between them; with Peter playing Tenor and Soprano sax as well as a variety of flutes, and Catherine playing Alto and Bari sax, clarinet, harmonica and recorder. They create their massive section sound by doing overdubs, which are repetitive recordings that are later mixed together by engineers. The Shrubshall's horn section was the backbone of Izit, a band that they formed with rhythm help and vocalists."
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Powdered+Rhino+Horns
Music, Sex and Mathematics - Mainstreet People
An early live and recording project in Catherine's career with members of 'Izit' and 'The Powered Rhino Horns'
http://www.last.fm/music/Main+Street+People/Music,+Sex+&+Mathematics
Artist In Residence
- Darlington Summer School
Instrumentalist for the advanced composition course with Louis Andreissen
- Oval House Theatre, London
Composed and arranged incidental music for theatre productions at the “Oval House Theatre” in London
- The Chocolate Factory, Wood Green London
Modelling for an Artist collective including book cover session.
Classical
Classic FM
Educational programme featuring Vera Lynn (1987)
The Young Persons Concert Foundation (1988)
BBC Radio 3
Live broadcast of Belfast Contemporary Music Festival, featuring 'Icebreaker' (1993)
Sinfonia Viva
Freelance Saxophonist (2007 - present)
The Road to Trio
Classical ensemble sponsored by The British Council
Royal National Theatre Productions | London Contemporary Dance Theatre | Random Dance Company (1983 - 2000)
Single Reed player in the pit and on stage.
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company (1983 - 2002)
Clarinetist and Saxophonist in locations including New York and Singapore and as part of a BBC Documentary.
Soundtracks and Sessions
Catherine contributed to many recordings for various media including the following:
London Kills Me (Handmade Films)
Swimming With Sharks (Keystone Film Partners)
The Crouches (BBC)
Later...With Jools Holland (BBC)
Live and Kicking (BBC)
Parallel 9 (BBC)
The Chart Show (BBC)
Orchestra Delle Donne Del 41esimo Parallelo (Rome 2012 - 2013)
Franco Ferguson Orchestra at Teatro Valle Occupato (Rome 2012 - 2013)
Mind the Gap (BBC Two 2014)