Andante in C Major by W.A. Mozart

Ballade by Frank Martin

Mary Matthews, Flute
Alex Kollias, Clarinet
Janet Jacobson, Violin
Pablo Issa, Cello



Winter Quartet by Daniel Morel

Mary Matthews, Flute & Piccolo
Colleen White, Flute
Brandon Norton, Piccolo Trumpet 

Hoquetus Petrus by Harrison Birtwistle

Mary Matthews and Matthew Angelo give the world premiere performance of In Cahoots by Nicole Chamberlain

In Cahoots by Nicole Chamberlain

Mary Matthews enjoys an active and varied career as a chamber musician, soloist, orchestral performer, and pedagogue. She has performed throughout the United States, South America, and Europe and has presented masterclasses and lectures in the United States and Bolivia. She is a founding member of Cuatro Puntos Chamber Music Collective, a chamber ensemble dedicated to musical diplomacy, and she performs with the SoundScape Trio, the Collage Ensemble, and the Colorado New Music Ensemble. Dr. Matthews joined the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra as Principal Flute during the 2012/2013 season, and in this capacity has collaborated with some of New England's leading musical organizations.  
 
Notable performances include a debut season with the 2012 Newport Music Festival, the 2013, 2012, and 2011 National Flute Association Conventions, the Goethe Institut Música Nueva Festival, and the Jornadas de Música Contemporánea in Cochabamba, Bolivia. She has appeared as a soloist with the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra, Firelands Symphony, Pottstown Symphony, and Baldwin-Wallace Symphony Orchestras. She is currently based in Boulder, Colorado.
 
Dr. Matthews has won numerous competitions including the 2012 South Carolina Flute Society Young Artist, 2010 Kathryn E. MacPhail Young Artist, 2008 Firelands Symphony Orchestra Young Artist, and the 2008 Baldwin-Wallace Concerto Competition.  She received an Honorable Mention in the 2010 Mary Graham Lasley Young Artist Competition and was a finalist in the 2010 Coeur D'Alene Young Artist Competition, the 2009 William C. Byrd Young Artist Competition and the 2009 JC Arriaga Chamber Music Competition.  Over the course of her career, she has been selected for nine musical performance and outreach grants.
 
A dedicated pedagogue, Dr. Matthews is on faculty at the Parlando School for the Arts in Boulder, CO, The Hartt School Community Division in West Hartford, CT where she also serves as head of the Adult Chamber Music Program, and she teaches with El Sistema Colorado. In the past, Dr. Matthews was an adjunct faculty member at The Hartt School, a flute faculty member at the International School of Music in Bethesda, MD, and a teaching artist with the Hartford Symphony's CityMusic. She has presented flute masterclasses at Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music, Orquesta Sinfonica de Tarija, Instituto Eduardo Laredo, and The Hartt School Community Division. She is a  registered Book One and Two Suzuki Flute Instructor. 
 
As a specialist in the fields of Musical Entrepreneurship and the Flute Music of Women Composers, Dr. Matthews has been invited to speak at The Peabody Institute Career Development Series, the College Music Society National Conference, the Women Composers Festival of Hartford, the congress of the International Alliance for Women in Music, The Hartt School Music and Performing Arts Management Department, and the Rochester Flute Association Annual Conference, among others. Her doctoral thesis is titled "The Flute Music of Anna Bon di Venezia in the Context of Eighteenth-Century Flute Repertoire" and provides a theoretical, historical, and pedagogical analysis of the composer's compositions for flute.
 
She began her formal flute studies in the Eastman School of Music's Preparatory Program where she graduated with distinction in performance. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from The Hartt School, a Master of Music Degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory.  Her principal teachers include Janet Arms, Emily Skala, Laurie Sokoloff, George Pope, and Jan Angus.

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