Fall Recital and Masterclass

Marianne Gedigian joined the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University as

professor of flute in fall 2023. She previously held the Butler Endowed

Professorship in Flute and was a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at The University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music. 

Ms. Gedigian performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for over a

decade, including several seasons as acting principal flute under Seiji Ozawa.

As principal flute with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and acting

principal flute with the Boston Pops, Ms. Gedigian has performed on dozens

of recordings with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras,

Evening at Pops public television broadcasts as well as the nationally

broadcast Fourth of July specials. She has also been heard on several John

Williams’ movie scores, including Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List

and can be seen in the film Blown Away. In the 2000–2001 season, Ms.

Gedigian was invited by Mariss Jansons to perform as acting principal flute

with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Her solo performances have taken

her around the world, including recitals in Japan, Australia, China, Canada,

Europe, and Armenia and she has appeared as concerto soloist numerous

times with the Boston Pops Orchestra and with the Armenian Philharmonic

performing her own transcription for flute of the Khachaturian Violin Concerto. 

During her years in Boston, she performed as principal flute with every major arts organization including the Opera Company of Boston, Musica Viva,

Boston Chamber Music Society, and as a member of Boston Ballet Orchestra.

She was featured with flutist and vocalist Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull fame in

performance at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Ms. Gedigian has

presented recitals, concerti, and master classes at numerous universities,

conservatories, and festivals across the United States as well as in Australia,

Canada, China, Italy, Japan, England and Austria. She won First Prize in the James Pappoutsakis Memorial Flute Competition and the National Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition and was later featured in the NFA Annual Convention Gala and Headliner performances in Pittsburgh, New Orleans, San Diego and Orlando. She was a founding member of the Boston-based Walden Chamber Players and was formerly a member of the Dorian Wind Quintet, one of chamber music’s pre-eminent and longest continuously active ensembles. Her solo recordings include Voice of the Flute and Revolution, both with pianist Rick Rowley and chamber music

for flute, strings and piano, The Evolution of the American Sound, a collection

of music that explores the American voice during the early to mid-twentieth

century, with the Walden Chamber Players. Ms. Gedigian authored an allegorical tale, Survival of the Flutist, with illustrator Patti Adams, published

by Flutistry Boston.

Summer festival appearances include Sarasota Music Festival, Brevard Music

Center, ARIA International Summer Academy, Round Top International Music

Festival, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Boston University

Tanglewood Institute. Prior to her tenure at The University of Texas at Austin,

she was on faculty at Boston University College of Fine Arts and Boston

Conservatory. She studied in Boston with Leone Buyse and Doriot Anthony

Dwyer, and in Michigan with Clement Barone and Donna Olkowski.