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Patti Monson, flutist/conductor, is a frequent guest artist on recital series dedicated to new music, and has been invited to perform and teach contemporary repertoire and extended sounds at universities and conservatories around the world. Patti is one of the most recorded flutists, having performances on the CRI, Koch, Sony Classical, Albany and Nonesuch labels. She is responsible for the commissions of several new works under the title Chamber Music for Solo Flute, a collection of pieces which are multi-voiced, in many different ways, for one flutist. Her recording High Art recently released on the Albany Records label is the second disc in a series dedicated to these commissions, and was applauded in Fanfare Magazine: "Monson taps virtuosity on many levels." (Robert Kirzinger)
Patti has enjoyed many seasons with the Sequitur New Music Ensemble, Bang on a Can, the Curiously Strong Wind Quintet, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Perlman Music Program. Her many guest performances have included the Eastman Electronic Music Festival, the Music from Stanford University series, Pittsburgh’s Music on the Edge Series, the Open Ears Festival, the Fromm Players at Harvard, the North River Music Series, Locrian Chamber Players, Modern Works, the Asia Society, Music at the Anthology, Festival in the Hamptons, Music from China, the Lincoln Center Summer Festival, the Lake Placid Institute for the Arts, Musica Sacra of New York, the Houston Contemporary Arts Festival, Flute Force, the Festival Internationale de Costa Rica, Ensemble 21 of New York, the Festival for Music of Extended Duration – Prague, the Common Sense Composers' Collective, the Gaudeamus Festival – Rotterdam, the Bach Aria and Spoleto festivals, and the National Flute Association. Recent conducting appearances have included a performance of Steve Reich’s Eight Lines at both the Bang on a Can Festival, and the Whitney Museum at a 70th birthday concert for the composer; two runs of Michael Gordon’s multimedia work Decasia; and seven years of performances as conductor of the Manhattan School of Music Contemporary Ensemble TACTUS. Ms. Monson holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Yale University School of Music. Her private teachers have included Thomas Nyfenger, Bonita Boyd, Robert Dick, Samuel Baron, and Judith Mendenhall.
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