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Kristen Queen is praised for her rich musicality, commanding stage presence and energetic performance as a flutist. She has won numerous awards for both musical and academic achievements and has received high praise from some of the world’s leading professional flutists.
In 2006, Mrs. Queen completed her Master’s degree at Northwestern University’s prestigious School of Music where she studied with Mr. Walfrid Kujala, former member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Mr. Richard Graef, assistant principal flute of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. While at Northwestern, Mrs. Queen was selected as runner-up in the annual concerto competition and subsequently returned to Northwestern to perform Carl Nielsen’s “Concerto for Flute and Orchestra” with the Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Robert Hasty. Mrs. Queen was also the recipient of the School of Music Eckstein Fund. While at Northwestern she performed as principal flute on numerous occasions with the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, Contemporary Music Ensemble, among others. Mrs. Queen also served as flute instructor for the Northwestern University Non-Major Music Program.
Mrs. Queen received her Bachelor’s degree with academic distinction in 2004 from the University of Oklahoma’s School of Music where she studied with Dr. Valerie Watts, principal flute of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and Ms. Christina Jennings, prize-winning soloist. 2004 brought many awards and achievements for Mrs. Queen including 1st prize winner of the Oklahoma Flute Society Collegiate Competition, Pi Kappa Lambda Outstanding Senior Award, Outstanding Undergraduate Flute Student, Maxine Appleman-Fagin Award for Exceptional School of Music Student, and the Gail Boyd de Stwolinski Award for Outstanding Promise and Exceptional Achievement in Music Performance. In 2001, the President of the University of Oklahoma awarded the Rita H. Lottinville Prize for Outstanding Freshman to Mrs. Queen, making her one of the top ten students in the freshman class.
Mrs. Queen had several notable performances at the University of Oklahoma. In 2004, Mrs. Queen was a featured soloist in a performance with the Modern Repertory Dance Theatre where she danced and played the flute in the Austin Hartel choreographed production, Ley Lines, set to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Tierkreis (12 signs of the Zodiac.) Mrs. Queen served as principal flute on several concerts for both the University of Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra and Wind Symphony. While studying at the University of Oklahoma, Mrs. Queen was selected in 2002 to attend the International Summer Music Academy in Leipzig, Germany, hosted by the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and The Juilliard School. While studying in Germany, Mrs. Queen was selected amongst her international peers, to perform as one of five musicians at the academy’s opening gala.
Recently, Mrs. Queen has appeared in concert performing J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.4 as part of the “Five B’s Festival of Music and Ideas” in Oklahoma, in recital with Mr. Harold Martina as part of TCU’s “Faculty Recital Series”, and as flute clinician in the TCU Summer Band Camp.
Mrs. Queen is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society. She has had the privilege to work with some of today’s most notable flutists, including Mario Caroli, Bradley Garner, Leonard Garrison, Katherine Kemler, George Pope, Gro Sandvik, Mark Sparks and Alexa Still.
Mrs. Queen teaches flute privately in the Fort Worth and Parker County area. Apart from the flute, she enjoys reading, blogging, yoga, and spending time with her husband, Jonathan, and daughter, Madelyn.
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