Flutist Elizabeth Rowe joined the Boston Symphony in 2004, where she holds the Walter Piston Principal Flute chair. An accomplished orchestral musician, she held titled positions with the orchestras of Fort Wayne, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. before joining the BSO at age 29. Equally at home in front of the orchestra, Ms. Rowe made her BSO solo debut at Tanglewood in 2008, under the direction of André Previn. She joins Music Director James Levine and the BSO to perform the American premiere of Elliott Carter’s Flute Concerto in February, 2010. In August, 2010, Ms. Rowe will be featured in Gabriela Lena Frank’s Illapa: Tone Poem for Flute and Orchestra, also with the BSO.
Noted for her insightful teaching, Ms. Rowe attracts flute students from around the country to her lessons and masterclasses. She currently serves on the faculties of the New England Conservatory and the Tanglewood Music Center and is a regular guest artist at the National Orchestral Institute of Music and the New World Symphony. She has previously taught at both the Peabody Conservatory of Music and the University of Maryland.
A member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, Ms. Rowe can be heard in a wide variety of chamber works throughout the season at NEC’s Jordan Hall. Her recording with the Chamber Players of Mozart’s Quartet in A major for flute and strings received critical acclaim.
Ms. Rowe grew up in Eugene, Oregon. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern California, where she was a Trustee Scholar and a student of Jim Walker, former Principal Flute of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Ms. Rowe recently returned to Los Angeles to join Mr. Walker as a guest teacher at his week-long intensive course, “Beyond the Masterclass.”
Ms. Rowe’s connection to the Boston Symphony dates back to the summer of 1996, when she was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center and performed as Principal Flute under the direction of Seiji Ozawa in Benjamin Britten’s opera “Peter Grimes.”
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