Catherine Montier was awarded a chamber music first prize in 1991 and a violin first prize in 1993 at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, followed by a postgraduate course in violin and chamber music. She then completed a baroque violin course at the CNSM and worked under the guidance of Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Philippe Hirshhorn, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Patrick Bismuth, and the Talich Quartet.

She has also been awarded a first prize at the “Avant-Scènes” competition.

She was a laureate of the International Long-Thibaud competition in Paris in 1996. Since then, her professional career has been mainly devoted to chamber music and teaching. She has collaborated with the Ensemble Intercomtemporain, the Chambre Philarmonique (Emmanuel Krivine), and the Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset). She has also recorded numerous works as leader of the Carpe Diem Ensemble.

She also collaborated with the Wanderer trio on concerts and several CDs as a quintet (Shostakovich, Schumann, Franck and Vierne).

Catherine Montier teaches the violin at the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatoire Régional since 2004 and the CNSMDP since 2014.