The 18-year-old Logan Park High School pupil was a flautist in the 2008 National Secondary Schools Orchestra, she is principal percussionist in the Dunedin Youth Orchestra and has been a member of the Southern Youth Choir for the past two years.
She was also a finalist in two groups in this year's Otago Secondary Schools Chamber Music contest, and won a highly commended award for her part as singer and accordion player in the folk group The Mint Hicks.
When Caitlin is not performing music, she is composing it.
She had a song selected for the Play It Strange CD in 2007 and attended the Nelson composers' workshop for top composition pupils.
She is also studying first-year composition at the University of Otago this year.
But academia is where Caitlin really shines.
Aside from excellence awards in music and composition at school, she has also won school prizes in French, English and science, and had her NCEA level 1 qualification endorsed with excellence.
To further her passion for French, Caitlin travelled to France on an exchange in 2008 and gained her French fluency qualification from Paris Langues.
She had previously won an excellence award for her French speaking in the Alliance Francaise competitions in Dunedin, and was this year's winner of the competition.
Caitlin plans to study music and sciences at the University of Otago next year, but has not committed to a career choice yet.
‘‘I don't think I have to decide yet - I'm only 18 and I'm happy I haven't decided yet.''
Achievements: NCEA level 1 endorsed with excellence; school enviro group (2009); film club (2009); peer reading tutor (2009); international student buddy (2009); school choir; Knox Church Choir (2008-09); Southern Youth Choir (2008-09); National Secondary Schools Orchestra (2008).
Role model: Composers Ian Clarke and Astor Piazzola. ‘‘Their music is experimental and spectacular.''
Hopes for the future: To study sciences and music composition at the University of Otago.