Marianne Gedigian and Renée Krimsier
Brevard Music Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Marianne Gedigian to its flute faculty. Ms. Gedigian will serve as Principal Flute for the first half of the 2009 Brevard season. Renee Krimsier will return as Principal for the final three weeks.
Marianne Gedigian
Marianne Gedigian, Associate Professor of Flute at The University of Texas at Austin, was a regular performer with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for over a decade, including several seasons as Guest Principal Flute under Seiji Ozawa. As Principal Flute with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and Guest Principal Flute with the Boston Pops, Ms. Gedigian has been heard on dozens of recordings and Evening at Pops television broadcasts as well as the nationally broadcast Fourth of July specials. She has also been heard on several John Williams' movie scores, including Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List. In the 2000 - 2001 season, Ms. Gedigian was invited by Mariss Jansons to perform as Acting Principal Flute with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Her solo performances have taken her around the world, including concerts in Japan, Australia, and Armenia and has appeared as concerto soloist numerous times with the Boston Pops Orchestra and with the Armenian Philharmonic performing her own transcription of the Khachaturian Violin Concerto. She was featured with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull fame in a performance at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Ms. Gedigian has been first prizewinner in the National Flute Association's Young Artist Competition, and the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition. She keeps an active schedule as a chamber musician as a founding member of the Boston-based Walden Chamber Players and was formerly a member of the Dorian Wind Quintet. Her solo recordings include Voice of the Flute and Revolution, both with pianist Rick Rowley.
Ms. Gedigian has served on the faculties of Boston University's College of Fine Arts, The Boston Conservatory, Boston University's Tanglewood Institute and the Round Top Institute.
Renée Krimsier
As a soloist and chamber musician flutist Renée Krimsier has made a name for herself in the areas of contemporary and classical repertoire. She is former director of and performer in the "Intermezzi" concert series at Charleston's prestigious Spoleto Festival U.S.A. as well as the "Incontri Musicali" series at the Spoleto Festival in Italy. As a chamber musician she has toured with the Aurora Trio, is a member of Boston Musica Viva, and participates in the festivals in Marlboro, Tanglewood, and La Musica in Sarasota. Dedicated to the exploration of contemporary music, Krimsier has commissioned a number of new works. She is former principal flute of the Filarmonica de Caracas in Venezuela and the Charleston Symphony in South Carolina.
