Katherine Kemler
Flute
Katherine
Kemler (Charles and Mary Barré Alumni Professor of Flute).
Kemler is the flutist with the Timm Wind Quintet, and a regular visiting
teacher at the Oxford Flute Summer School in England. A graduate of Oberlin,
she received her M.M. and D.M.A. degrees from S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook.
Her major teachers include Samuel Baron, Robert Willoughby, and Mark Thomas.
She has also studied with Marcel Moyse, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Julius Baker,
William Bennett, Andras Adorjan, and Michel Debost.
Kemler has taught master classes and performed solo recitals at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in China and the Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts. She has also performed a solo recital in the Beijing Concert Hall and taught flute master classes at the Central Conservatory of Music there. She has performed at seven National Flute Association conventions in Denver, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Boston, Orlando, Chicago, and Atlanta.
Kemler has appeared as soloist with the British Chamber Orchestra in London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, and with the Orchestra Medicea Laurenziana throughout Italy, including Florence, Naples, and Salerno. She has toured extensively as a soloist, with the Kemler/Benjamin flute/harp duo, and with the Timm Wind Quintet. She has appeared in China, England, Poland, Switzerland, Canada, Italy, throughout the United States, and made solo broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and National Public Radio.
She has recorded three CDs with Centaur Records: Virtuoso American Flute Works (with pianists Jan Grimes and Kathleen Rountree), Sky Loom (with harpist Ann Benjamin), and Sonatina (with pianist Michael Gurt). She has also recorded on the Orion and Opus One Labels.
In the orchestral setting, Kemler has performed under the batons of many renowned conductors, including Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Bernstein, and Colin Davis.
Katherine Kemler,
Barré Alumni Professor
School of Music
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Voice: 225/578-3261
Fax: 225/578-2562
E-mail: kkemler@lsu.edu
