Born in 1969, Catherine Fender is a choral conductor, voice and choral conducting teacher, composer and arranger. Alsatian, she studied piano, organ, singing and especially choral conducting, first with Florent Stroesser in Strasbourg, then Pierre Cao in Luxembourg. She broadened her horizons and deepened her knowledge of the profession by working with Hans-Michael Beuerle in Germany, Raphaël Immoos in Switzerland, as well as by participating in training courses and workshops with Michel-Marc Gervais, Frieder Bernius, Gunnar Eriksson, Eric Ericcson and Michel Corboz, to name but a few. She has initiated and trained many young choral conductors who are now active in France, in the Rhine triangle and internationally. She will join the committee of the French Institute of Choral Art in 2021. Holder of a certificate of aptitude for choral conducting, she has taught choral singing and choral conducting at the Conservatories of Strasbourg and Colmar, at the University of Strasbourg (in particular at the Centre de formation de musiciens intervenants). She is a founding member of the Choeur 3 academy (France-Germany-Switzerland) and regularly teaches master classes. She is a regular lecturer (choral conducting) at the Basel University of Music. She took over the direction of the Lausanne School of Music Choir in August 2020.