Lindsay Flowers

UW Mead Witter School of Music concert.

media release:

Faculty Artist Series

Lindsay Flowers, oboe

Dawn Dongeun Wohn, violin

Katrin Talbot, viola

James Waldo, cello

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Program

“Interconnections” New Quartets with Oboe

(in collaboration with Sarah Roper and Cuarteto Emispherio)

Capturing Anthems (2022)**       Luke Styles (b. 1982)

I. Sang. Watched. Waited

II. Ghosts May Be Heard

Seville Cathedral: A Study in Memory (2022)**     Althea Talbot-Howard (b. 1966)

A Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings with Aluphone Handbell

Anti-Philosophy of the Subject – Mankind’s Origin Is in Its Fellows (2022)** Pilar Miralles (b. 1997)

Intermission 

Uncertain Paths (2022)*     Maricarmen Asenjo-Marrodán (b. 1978)

Quartet with oboe and electronics

I. Reminiscencias: Interconexiones

II. Material Inflamable

Mosaicos (2022)**     John Richard Durant (b. 1960)

I. El Laberinto

II. Sosus of Pergamon

III. Casa Batlló

IV. Pan

V. Zellij

*World premiere (of new edition with added movement II)

**American premiere

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Dr. Lindsay Flowers is the Assistant Professor of Oboe at Mead Witter School of Music where she is a member of the Wingra Wind Quintet and guides student-generated community engagement projects. She received a Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music under the tutelage of Linda Strommen and Roger Roe. Her background in athletics distinguishes her pedagogical approach in her emphasis on performance visualization, disciplined commitment, and supportive teamwork.

Lindsay is an Oboist and English Hornist with the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, and Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra. She previously was a member of the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, New Mexico Philharmonic, and Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Lindsay was a founding member of the Arundo Donax Reed Quintet, Bronze Medal Winners of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and recorded a duo album with Dr. Andrew Parker to be released in 2023. She has performed with the Milwaukee, Chicago, Indianapolis, Utah, and Nashville Symphony Orchestras and during recent summers with the Santa Fe Opera, Grant Park, Midsummer’s, Lakes Area, Apollo, Lake George, Castleton, Aspen, and Banff Music Festivals.

In addition to performing and teaching, Lindsay is recognized for her maintenance and repair of oboe and English horn gouging machines, particularly those designed by Ferrillo, Graf, Kunibert, and Gilbert. Lindsay is also curating gouger clinics for students and professionals to share her knowledge in this specialty.