Award-winning musician, Catalina Vicens, a native of Chile and now resident in Basel, Switzerland, started her international career at an early age. By age 20 she had already played in the main concert-halls of more than ten countries in North and South America, including the Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires Argentina, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and the Teatro Municipal do São Paulo.

Catalina studied harpsichord with Lionel Party (Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia), Robert Hill (Musikhochschule Freiburg) and Andrea Marcon and Jesper Christensen (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis). She later specialized in medieval music with Corina Marti, obtaining a Master's degree in Medieval Keyboard Instruments (an international first), and in Contemporary Music Performance (with historical keyboards) at the Musik Akademie Basel. During her graduate studies, she undertook individual research on the harpsichord and organ literature from Renaissance Italy, England and Switzerland, which led her to commence recently a PhD degree at the Orpheus Institute, Ghent, Belgium and the Leiden University, The Netherlands. She has also been invited to give several courses and master-classes and to be part of the jury at international competitions.

Her fascination for sound and rhythm also led Catalina to study Iranian percussion with Madjid Khaladj and historical timpani and percussion with Pedro Estevan, Michael Metzler, Philip Tarr and Glen Velez among others. Her desire to explore the sound possibilities of the instruments she plays has brought her to close collaboration with composers.
Catalina has performed as a soloist and with renowned ensembles in Central Europe, Scandinavia, Great Britain, and both North and South America. Among the respected and well-known musicians under whose direction she has performed are Gottfried von der Goltz, Andrea Marcon, Skip Sempé, Joseph Silverstein, Otto-Werner Müller and J. Manuel Quintana. Currently, she frequently performs as a soloist as well as in many ensembles in Europe, South America and the USA, specialising in Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and new music. She is the founder and artistic director of "Servir Antico", an ensemble devoted to the music and texts from the humanistic period, and also regularly performs with Corina Marti as the "Duo Marti – Vicens" (Medieval keyboards) and as keyboardist and percussionst in the "Ensemble La Traditora" (Renaissance and Baroque), Marc Mauillon & Pierre Hamon ensemble, (Guillaume de Mauchaut project) and "Mediva” (medieval & fusion) among many others.

Besides her busy performing career, Catalina holds a position as organist in Switzerland.