Caitlin Boyle is a native of Dundas, Ontario where she was born in 1980.  She began playing the viola at age three at the Hamilton Suzuki School of Music.  Subsequently she studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, with James Dunham; at the Glenn Gould School, with Steven Dann; and in June 2005 completed a Performance Diploma with Hariolf Schlichtig in Munich, Germany.  While in Europe she attended the Prussia Cove Masterclasses with Thomas Riebl.  She has been a member of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, the National Academy Orchestra, and the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra.  In the fall of 2005 she participated in a tour of the East Coast of the United States with the Munich Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Phillippe Entremont.  Her passion for chamber music was fostered at the Southern Ontario Chamber Music Institute and the Domaine Forget Chamber Music Sessions and continued to grow through the support of such artists and teachers as Richard Lester, Terrence Helmer and the St. Lawrence String Quartet.  In 2001 and 2003 Caitlin received the Felix Galimir Chamber Music Award through the University of Toronto.