Cathy van Eck (1979 The Netherlands/Belgium) studied composition and electronic music with
Diderik Wagenaar, Gilius van Bergeijk and Martijn Padding at the conservatory in The Hague. She 
continued her studies in Berlin with Walter Zimmermann, Wolfgang Heiniger and Daniel Ott, getting 
financial support of the Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds.
She attended several courses, among them Centre Acanthes 2000 in Avignon, the summer course 
for composition and computer music at Ircam in Paris and the composition course at Schloss Solitude 
in Stuttgart.

As a composer she cooperated with Wouter Snoei (performance for three musicians, live-electronics 
and loudspeakers attached on the back of the musicians), the Asko ensemble (piece for ensemble and 
electronics), Teresa Rotemberg (dancetheatre for three dancers and portable hornloudspeakers), 
Matthias Rebstock (musictheatre for three actors, soprano and eleven loudspeakers), Carter Williams 
(piece for viola d’amore and live-electronics) and Anne Faulborn (piece for harpsichord and live electronics).

Her pieces have been performed during festivals like the Gaudeamus Music Week, the Festival Rümlingen 
and the Festival Magdeburgisches Concert.

She is doing a doctoral degree at the Orpheusinstitute in Gent, her dissertation subject is Loudspeakers 
and Microphones as Musical Instruments. Her supervising professor is Richard Barrett and she got 
financial support from the fonds voor de amateur en podiumkunsten.