Biography
Grace is a concert flutist and educator from Olympia, WA. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance from the University of Puget Sound. She is currently a second year Master of Music student at the University of Washington, studying with critically acclaimed soloist Donna Shin.
Grace’s principal teachers are Donna Shin, Karla Flygare, and Ninee Petchprapa Wolff. She was a finalist in the 2022 University of Puget Sound Concerto-Aria Competition and a 2023 Concerto-Aria Competition runner-up.
Grace currently performs with the University of Washington Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra. While she specializes in classical performance, Grace has experience in avant garde, contemporary, and jazz music. As a versatile performer, Grace is asked to share her talent with university ensembles as well as local community orchestras.
As a soloist, she appeared with the Tacoma Music Collaborative Orchestra, playing Mozart's Concerto in G Major, and with the University of Puget Sound Wind Ensemble, performing David Maslanka’s Song Book for Flute and Wind Ensemble.
She is the recipient of the Doc and Lucille Weathers Memorial Scholarship, James R. Slater Excellence in Music Award, and the Delwen and Genevieve Jones Scholarship at the University of Puget Sound, and the Gustafson, Marsh, and Reynolds Music Scholarships at the University of Washington.
She has spent her summers with the Marrowstone Music Festival, the National Flute Association Collegiate Flute Choir, ARIA International Summer Academy, the Bonita Boyd International Flute Masterclass, Madeline Island Chamber Winds Festival, and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival.
She has taken lessons with Zart Dombourian-Eby, Jeffrey Barker, Evan Pengra Sult, Tara Helen O’Connor, Aaron Goldman, Jonathan Keeble, and Bonita Boyd.
Grace spent a semester abroad in Vienna, Austria, studying at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Vienna.
Grace is an active member of the University of Washington Music History Department. Outside of her musical pursuits, Grace enjoys spending time with friends and family, traveling, reading, coloring, trail running, and hiking with her dog, Koa.