Flute Center Presents

Catherine Ramirez Recital

Claiming Space - solo flute music by BIPOC composers from South, Latin and North America

Live at FC New York | November 12, 2024 | 6PM | Sponsored by Burkart Flutes

Free auditor tickets!

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Flutist Catherine Ramirez has captivated listeners from her desert roots along the U.S. Southern border to audiences around the world. Winner of three international competition prizes in Italy, a New York Recital Debut, and a McKnight Fellowship for Musicians, she recently won a Sphinx MPower Artist Grant. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed at such venues as the Teatro del Giglio in Italy, Beijing Concert Hall, The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, and Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, as well as in such varied locations as public schools, mental health clinics, rural libraries, and urban artist lofts. Equally at home with orchestras, Catherine has performed with the Sunriver Music Festival, Vermont Mozart Festival, El Paso Symphony, Juarez Symphony (Mexico), Minnesota Sinfonia, Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

A dedicated educator, she holds a Special Appointment as Artist-in-Residence (Flute) at St. Olaf College (MN), has been an adjudicator for the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and has taught youth to graduate flute students in the U.S., Italy, Colombia, and China. Catherine has also mentored young adults through the National Flute Association and Posse Foundation. Her performances have been broadcast on WFMT, KUHF and MPR radio, and her research on optimal musical communication has been featured on the cover of The Flutist Quarterly. Through all these endeavors, Catherine aims to invite hope, connection, and inspiration through the power of music.

It all started with supportive Colombian and Mexican-American parents, as she grew up in the U.S.-Mexico border city of El Paso, Texas. Gravitating to the flute in sixth grade public school band, Catherine’s love for music-making and the flute led to private flute lessons at age 18, and performance degrees from Occidental College (BA), the Boccherini Music Institute (Italy) (Honors Diploma), CUNY Queens College (MA), Yale University (MM), and Rice University (DMA). Her major teachers include Melissa Colgin-Abeln, Gary Woodward, Marzio Conti, Tara Helen O'Connor, Ransom Wilson and Leone Buyse. For more, visit www.catherineramirez.com.


PUBLISHING INFORMATION:
Danza De La Mariposa (2011, Theodore Presser); El Canto Del Guirahú (Capriccioso Editions); El Encantador de Pájaros (2017, Éditions Robert Martin); Danzas Latinoamericanas (1997, José L. Elizondo); Prelude (1976, Pembroke Music Co.); Homeland (2018, Allison Loggins-Hull, Flutronix Publishing); Falling Skyward (2001, Andre Myers, Lotic Music); Flute Set (2003, Carl Fischer)

CD: https://www.catherineramirez.com/store/claiming-space