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Meghan Bennett Performance
November 2, 2023 @ 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm
Free
Meghan Bennett, flute – Artist-in-Residence
with Shinae Kim, piano
Program
Antonio Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in D Major (“Il Gardellino / The Goldfinch”)
with UC Davis flute students
William Grant Still: Songs for Flute and Piano
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Passacaglia in G Minor from the “Rosary Sonatas”
Alfredo Casella: Barcarola et Scherzo pour flûte et piano
Francis Poulenc: Sonate pour flûte et piano
Free, a Shinkoskey Noon Concert
About Meghan
Meghan Bennett recently began as Assistant Music Professor and Director of Woodwind Studies at New York University in fall of 2023.
She was awarded top prizes in the South Carolina Flute Society Young Artist Competition, the Morning, Afternoon and Eau Claire Music Club Competition, the Atlanta Flute Club Young Artist Competition, Flute Society of Kentucky Young Artist Competition, and the Greater Philadelphia Flute Society Collegiate Young Artist Competition. Bennett has also competed in the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition and the Fischoff Competition.
Passionate about collaborating with communities of color through classical music, Bennett traveled to Chile and Ghana in 2019 for residencies at Centro Cultural San Antonio and the Matic Music Club where she taught flute, music theory and pedagogy classes. She curated Honesty of Voice, a five-part conversation series targeting a dynamic and diverse set of flutists who shared their professional journeys and insight into balancing life and the profession. As an artist-mentor, Dr. Bennett embraces the opportunity to speak publicly about social issues. In 2020 she developed a four-part Facebook conversation series—Let’s Talk—amplifying the Black experience through the lens of classical music. The episodes gave in-depth analyses of Black experiences, explored systemic racism, and generated steps for change.
