Catrin Finch

“It pushes the boundaries,” says Catrin Finch. “It’s not really harp-based at all, so it’s a bit of a gamble.” She’s describing her lock-down collaboration with the Cardiff-based electronic musician and producer Lee House. “What I’m trying to do in this next phase of my career, is maybe move away from being solely a harpist.” A bit of a departure for some perhaps, but for Catrin Finch, known chiefly as the most gifted classical harp virtuoso of her generation, making an album with “an Ibiza chill-out kind of vibe” is more than a bit of a gamble. It’s another bold departure from the well-paved classical music highway, onto uncharted byways bound for terra incognita. Over the past decade, such diversions have gradually become par for course for the ‘Queen of Harps’ (queen of the understa