Catherine Perrin holds a Premier Prix from the Conservatoire de Montréal, and has performed with the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, Les Violons du Roy, the Orchestre Métropolitain and the Bataclan Trio, among others. With I Musici de Montréal, she recorded Henryc Gorecki’s harpsichord concerto (Chandos disc, winner of two Opus awards). In 2005, at I Musici’s request, she created, with composer Denis Gougeon, a musical theater based on Lafontaine’s Fables, subsequently revived with Les Violons du Roy and then with the Quatuor Molinari.
From 2011 to 2019, Catherine hosted Médium large on weekday afternoons. She can now be found on Feu vert, also on Ici Radio-Canada Première.
In 2014, she published her first book, Une femme discrète, with Québec Amérique, followed by two novels with XYZ, one very musical, Trois réveils, and the other revealing her ecological concerns, L’âge des accidents. In 2023, she published Habiter en beauté with architect Pierre Thibault, published by La Presse.