Passionate Boston-based flute/piccolo teacher, and captivating solo, chamber, and orchestral performer
I love to perform and teach the flute and piccolo. I care deeply about the audience's experience of a performance, and invest in opportunities to adapt to reach a wider audience. And I believe, as a teacher, I can help students develop their creativity and fine-tune their work ethic.
For a student, music lessons are an accessible way to learn how they learn, and practice individual improvement. Music is a way of sharing our understanding of the world and the human experience with each other, and I hope to share with mine with audiences and students.
Biography
Grace teaches private lessons in the Boston area and beyond, and regularly performs with local orchestras. These include the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Vista Philharmonic Orchestra as their first call sub, and the Boston Civic Orchestra. Additionally, she's on the sublist for the Boston Lyric Opera. She performs in local operas with the Cambridge Chamber Ensemble as well as the Boston Summer Opera. This past summer, she performed in the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC.
She teaches private lessons in her personal studio, is the Private Flute Instructor at Kennedy Middle School in Waltham, MA, and is on faculty with Music and Arts/Guitar Center. In March of 2023 she played a sold out Carnegie Hall debut with Boston University’s School of Music, from which she graduated Cum Laude with her Bachelor’s in May, having studied with Linda Toote and Ann Bobo. She's been a member of DM Flute Studio since fall of 2023. In January, 2021 she won first prize in the 41st annual James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition & The Boston Woodwind Society/Matthew Ruggiero International Woodwind Competition.
She performed with the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra 2019-23, with which she toured Greece and South Africa. And, with which the Boston Classical Review described her performance of Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra as having “sang beguilingly.” October 2022-July 2023 she played flute, sax and vocals with Boston based reggae band, the Roots Rock Rebels.
In fall of 2019 she served as the soloist with both the Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale and the Lincoln-Sudbury Civic Orchestra in performances of Mozart’s flute concerto in D major. She previously soloed with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra after winning third place in their young artist’s competition. In March of 2020 she was the first place recipient in her age division of the Best Bach Performance from the global, online Great Composers Competition series.
From 2015-2019 Grace played with Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and now works as a substitute coach with the organization. She spent 3 summers at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, as a member of their Young Artists Orchestra and Young Artists Wind Ensemble. Other summer festivals include the Pender Island Flute Retreat, Flauti al Castello, EFlute Fest, the Jeffrey Khaner Flute Festival at Curtis Summerfest and Credo Flute. In 2018 she won first place in the Musical Club of Hartford High School Competition. Grace studied with former Hartford Symphony principal flute, Greig Shearer, for 8 years. In her spare time, she likes to knit, climb, and make latte art.
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