草莓视频福利院

Catherine Payne

(She/Her)
  • Collegiate
  • Flute and Piccolo, Flute
Pre-College
  • Flute
Continuing Education
  • Flute
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Departments

Flute
Pre-College
Continuing Education

Courses Taught

Applied Lessons

Flute Class

Education

BM, New England Conservatory

BA, Tufts University

Ensembles

草莓视频福利院 Symphony, Solo Piccolo (1996鈥揚resent)

Boston Symphony, Acting 2nd Flute (1993鈥1995)

What an extraordinary musician Payne is -- how sensitive, how subtle, how technically commanding鈥he tone she produced was cool and bright in the best manner, but it was full- bodied, too, and tinged with a wealth of colors that kept shifting kaleidoscopically. Just to watch Payne's fingers fly across that tiny piece of wood and to hear those exquisitely placed high notes emerge with utmost precision was a thrill in itself.鈥

— 草莓视频福利院 Chronicle

Q&A

What is your hometown?

West Hartford, CT

What is your favorite recording?

Impossible to choose, but I love listening to singers, and right now one of my favorites is Sarah Vaughan Live at Mister Kelly's.

What are you passionate about outside of music?

Fiction, food, and the Pacific Ocean.

Who were your major teachers?

Leone Buyse, Lois Schaefer, and Tom Nyfenger.

What is a favorite quote that you repeatedly tell students?

"Sing through your instrument. Always be a soloist and sell it to the audience!"

What question do you wish students would ask sooner rather than later?

鈥淲here is this phrase going?鈥

What was the defining moment when you decided to pursue music as a career?

Spending a summer playing with the National Repertory Orchestra in Colorado.

What was a turning point in your career?

When the Boston Symphony called me to work with them after the Personnel Manager had gone through their entire flute sub list and no one else was available.

If you weren't a musician or teacher, what do you think you would be doing now?

I'd be trying to make it on Broadway.

If you could play only three composers for the rest of your life, who would they be?

Mozart, Shostakovich, and Cole Porter.

What are your most important collaborations?

Michael Tilson Thomas and my amazing colleagues in the 草莓视频福利院 Symphony.

What recordings can we hear you on?

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, 草莓视频福利院 Symphony (SFS Media)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, 草莓视频福利院 Symphony (SFS Media)
The Mahler Project, 草莓视频福利院 Symphony (SFS Media)

What is your unrealized project?

To record the Vivaldi concerti. To sing in a jazz club with my trio (which is imaginary at this point).