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Biography Flutist, composer, and improviser Lisa Bost-Sandberg is currently a Lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas and pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of North Texas. At UNT she is a recipient of the Master’s and Doctoral Fellowship and is a Teaching Fellow. Bost-Sandberg travels regularly to perform, teach masterclasses, adjudicate competitions, present her lecture-recitals, and lead workshops. Guest appearances include universities, conferences, and festivals across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom and Norway. She is currently serving on the National Flute Association New Music Advisory Committee and is the Graduate Vice President of the University of North Texas Composers Forum Board of Directors for the 2011-2012 academic year. A dedicated advocate and engaging performer of new music, she has premiered more than thirty pieces and actively commissions new works with a particular interest in works for alto flute. Her compositions have been performed across the country and have been selected for the National Flute Association Convention, World Saxophone Congress, Greater Denton Arts Council New Works by UNT Composers Concert, Society of Composers Inc. Conference, the 44th Annual Iowa Composers Concert, and the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference. Bost-Sandberg served on the faculty of Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, from 2007-2010 as Adjunct Instructor of Flute and World Music. During this time she also performed as flutist with the Wild Prairie Wind Quintet, principal flute with the Ottumwa Symphony, and substitute flute/piccolo with the Cedar Rapids and Dubuque Symphonies. She has worked with conductors such as Eugene Migliaro Corporon, Gunther Schuller, and Tania León, and has recorded on the Albany, GIA, and North Texas Jazz labels. She is the flute specialist on the online supplementary videos for the recently-released textbook, Instrumental Music Education: Teaching with the Musical and Practical in Harmony, by Evan Feldman, Ari Contzius, and contributor Mitchell Bryan Lutch. A Montana native, Bost-Sandberg received her undergraduate education as a Presidential Scholar at The University of Iowa, graduating in 2004 with a Bachelor of Music Degree in Flute Performance with Highest Distinction and Honors in Music. In addition, she was selected from her graduating class to be the student speaker at the Commencement ceremony of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She received a Master of Arts degree from New York University in 2006 and continued her freelance work in New York as a teacher, performer, and studio musician in the City and on Long Island, where she was on the faculty of the Great Neck Arts Center. Her primary flute instructors include Terri Sundberg, Elizabeth McNutt, Robert Dick, Tadeu Coelho, and Tamara Thweatt; she has also studied with Betty Bang Mather, Christina Smith, and Keith Underwood. She studied the Alexander Technique with Käthe Jarka of New York City and Pedro de Alcantara of Paris, France. Bost-Sandberg’s primary composition instructors include Andrew May, Christopher Trebue Moore, Robert Dick, and Lawrence Fritts. |
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