Thank you for your interest in the flute studio at the ECU School of Music. Please read below for additional information on the professor of flute, Dr. Christine Gustafson.
Flutist Christine Gustafson has performed solo and chamber music in Europe, Canada, Taiwan, China and throughout the United States. A 1995 winner of the National Flute Association Professional Performers Competition, she has been a featured performer at the American Music Festival. She has also performed as a Fellow at the Salzburg Summer Academy Festival, the Waterloo Festival under Gerard Schwarz, and the Sarasota Music Festival, where she was the recipient of the Sol Levites Fellowship. She has been a Festival Artist and Solo Flutist for the Banff Opera Orchestra at the Banff Music Centre in Canada.
An active proponent of new music, Gustafson has had works written for her by composers including Stephen Jaffe, Mark Lewis, Martha Horst and Ken Kreuzer, and has a work in progress by Yan Fu Rong. She has premiered many new works in a wide range of venues, among which are the Chiang Kai-Shek National Cultural Center in Taipei, Taiwan, the Beijing Conservatory and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. In 2001-02 she won a professional Fulbright grant to Taiwan for a performance project featuring the music of living American composers. As part of her project, she met with Taiwanese and Chinese composers to study their music and style, and is now bringing their music to American audiences. She performed throughout Taiwan, giving masterclasses and recitals at the Beijing and Shanghai Conservatories as well.
A featured soloist with the Augusta Symphony Orchestra, Gustafson has performed with the Augusta Symphony, China National Symphony, Charlotte, Greenville, SC, North Carolina and Virginia Symphony Orchestras and performed regularly with the Royal Court Theater [Burgtheater] Orchestra in Vienna, Austria, for two years. As a North Carolina Arts Council Visiting Artist, she performed throughout the state for four years.
Christine Gustafson studied flute with Wolfgang Schulz at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria, Karl Kraber, and Carol Wincenc. She holds degrees from Indiana University, Bloomington (BM in Flute Performance), the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria (Artist Diploma), the Eastman School of Music (MM in Flute Performance) and the University of Texas at Austin (DMA in Flute Performance).
Christine Gustafson is currently Associate Professor of Flute at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina and was a 2002-2003 recipient of the University Award for Outstanding Teaching. She is the flutist for the Coastal Winds Quintet, as well as flutist of the Duo St. Caecilia with guitarist Elliot Frank.
