Since her debut in 1972, mezzo-soprano Catherine Robbin has enjoyed a career of international proportions.  Past highlights include appearances at Covent Garden with John Eliot Gardiner, the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and the Salzburg Festival conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. European credits include the Schleswig-Holstein and the Halle Handel festivals, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Liverpool Philharmonic, and Paris' Chatelet and Theatre Champs Elysees.  Award-winning recordings include Handel's Floridante with Tafelmusik for CBC Records (Juno Award), Beethoven's Missa Solemnis with the English Baroque Soloists for DG (Gramophone's Record of the Year), and Haydn's Stabat Mater with Pinnock for Archiv (Grand Prix du Disque).  She has also recorded for CBC Records, Decca Florilegium, EMI, Erato, Marquis Record, l'Oiseau Lyre, Phillips, Telarc and Virgin.

 2002-03 was Catherine Robbin’s final performing season. It was marked by return engagements with many of the the organizations that have been important throughout her career.  Praised as a recitalist, she was heard in Vancouver (Music in the Morning), Victoria (Musica Victoria), and Toronto (Aldeburgh Connection and for the Women's Musical Club). In Quebec and Montreal she gave final performances with Bernard Labadie and Les Violons du Roy, with whom she has had a very rewarding relationship. Her farewell performance was for the CBC with Tafelmusik at the Glenn Gould Concert Hall in Toronto in May of 2003.

Ms. Robbin has now retired from performance and is completely dedicated to teaching, privately and most especially as Director of Vocal Studies at York University.  She also gives regular Masterclasses at universities all over Canada, enjoys adjudicating, and is President of the Canadian Aldeburgh Foundation, an organization that supports young Canadian Artists studying and performing in the Britten- Pears Young Artists programme in the UK.  She is an honorary patron of The Toronto Children’s Chorus, The Women’s Musical Club of Toronto and the Aldeburgh Connection.