Christine Gustafson
 D.M.A., University of Texas at Austin; M.M., Eastman School of Music; Artist's Diploma, Academy of Music and Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria; B.M., Indiana University. She has performed as a guest artist and has given masterclasses in the US, Asia, Europe and Brazil. As a Fulbright recipient in 2001-2002 Dr. Gustafson featured the music of living American composers in a performance project that took her to Taiwan and China. She has contributed to The Flutist Quarterly and was a North Carolina Arts Council Visiting Artist for four years. Dr. Gustafson has recorded for the Albany, AURecords and Sphere Sound labels and for public television in North Carolina in July 2009. She has performed for the conventions of the National Flute Association and is a prizewinner in the Professional Performers Competition of the NFA. As an orchestral and chamber music performer she has been a Fellow at the Salzburg Summer Academy Festival, the Waterloo Festival and the Sarasota Music Festival, and has served as solo flutist for the Banff Opera Orchestra at the Banff Music Centre in Canada. Dr. Gustafson has appeared with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the Augusta Symphony, the Salisbury Symphony and the Orchestra of the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. An active proponent of New Music, she has premiered many new works, a number of which have been written for her, in a wide range of venues including the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, the National Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan, the Beijing Central Conservatory and the Shanghai Conservatory in China. Composers Stephen Jaffe, Ken Kreuzer, Martha Horst, Yan Fu Rong and Donald Sloan have dedicated works to her. Her most recent recording of music by composer Gary Smart was released on Albany Records in May 2009. Dr. Gustafson’s students have won awards at competitions of the MTNA and the Raleigh Area Flute Association as well as scholarships to major conservatories and summer courses in Chicago, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Brazil and France.
Dr. Gustafson holds degrees from Indiana University Bloomington (BM, Flute Performance), the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria (Artist Diploma), The Eastman School of Music (MM, Flute Performance), and The University of Texas at Austin (DMA, Flute Performance). Her principal teachers include Harry Houdeshel, Louis Rivière, Wolfgang Schulz, Karl Kraber and Carol Wincenc. Christine Gustafson is professor of flute at East Carolina University, where she performs with colleague Elliot Frank, guitar, as the Duo St. Caecilia and is a Discipline Reviewer in Music for the J. William Fulbright Foundation. [Visit the ECU Flute Studio page.]
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