G'FROERER, JOANNA

Joanna G'froerer became the principal flautist of the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada in 1992, at the age of twenty. A native of Vancouver, she comes from a family of professional musicians, and studied in her native city with Kathleen Rudolph of the CBC Radio Orchestra, becoming the first wind player to graduate from the Vancouver Academy of Music. She later studied at McGill University with Timothy Hutchins, principal flautist of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and earned a Licentiate in Music from McGill in 1993. Joanna G'froerer was the principal flautist of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra at Interlochen, Michigan, in the summers of 1989 and 1990, and was also principal flautist of the McGill University Symphony Orchestra from 1990. She spent the summers of 1991 and 1992 with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Her orchestral career has also included an engagement as assistant principal flute with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood during the summer of 1996. She performs frequently with the NAC Orchestra as a soloist, and has also appeared as a soloist with the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, Thirteen Strings of Ottawa, and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, after winning the wind division of the MSO Competition in 1990. As a chamber musician, she appeared in the 1994 Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, and is a regular participant in the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival. She has been a guest artist with chamber groups including the Proteus Ensemble of Montreal, the Penderecki String Quartet, and the Tokyo String Quartet. Joanna Gfroerer is also an active teacher. She has been on the faculty of the Scotia Festival of Music, has taught flute at McGill University, and regularly gives master-classes. Her recordings include a release of Mozart Flute Quartets, together with Martin Beaver, Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth, chosen by Opus Magazine as the best Canadian chamber music recording of 2001.

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
FLUTE MOMENTS	8.557788
RODRIGO: Concierto Pastorale / Fantasia para un Gentilhombre (Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 8)	8.557801
RODRIGO: Joaquin Rodrigo - A Portrait (WADE)	8.558204-05