Crystal, Rosewood and Silver: Original Flutes of the Nineteenth Century

Tune in for a performance and lecture with Baroque flute master Joanna Marsden featuring antique flutes by Claude Laurent, Jean-Louis Tulou, Theobald Boehm, and Louis Lot.

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‘Baroque flute master’ Joanna Marsden (the Classical Music Sentinel) is a ‘fabulous’ (the Whole Note) flautist based in Montréal, Québec. She has performed with numerous ensembles throughout the world “beautifully” (Luis Gago, Madrid) and “with notable rhetorical clarity” (Boston Musical Intelligencer). She has worked with conductors including Ton Koopman, Václav Luks, Julian Prégardien, Florian Heyerick, Mathieu Lussier, and Peter van Heyghen among others. 

She addresses a wide repertoire from Renaissance to Romantic, playing antique flutes by Tortochot (Paris, ~1770), Claire Godfroy l’aîné (Paris, ~1820), Jean-Louis Tulou (Paris, ~1841) and Isidore Lot (Paris ~1870) and faithful reproductions by Boaz Berney, Alain and Stéphanie Weemaels, and Jean-François Beaudin.

Her début CD, Devienne Sonatas with Mark Edwards, was issued by Centaur Records in February 2019 and has been warmly reviewed by Early Music America and the American Record Guide. Her recording of Michel de la Barre’s Premier livre de pièces (1702) with the Opus Project was released on June 24, 2022 by Navona Records with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts. She recently recorded an album of Montéclair’s Concerts for baroque flute and basse which will be released in summer 2023.

She holds degrees from Vassar College, the Royal Conservatory of the Hague and McGill University’s Schulich School of Music. Her main teachers include Wilbert Hazelzet (Royal Conservatory of the Hague), Claire Guimond (Schulich School of Music of McGill University), and John Solum (Vassar College).

She has offered engaging workshops and masterclasses on baroque flute and historical performing practices to students in Europe, North America and South America. She presented a workshop while she was an artist-in-residence at the prestigious Festival de Música de Cámara de San Miguel de Allende in 2019. She is an active member of the National Flute Association’s Historical Flutes Committee.