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CHRISTINE ERLANDER BEARD
flute & piccolo
Upcoming Events
- Nov 24, 2024, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PMGallery 1516, 1516 Leavenworth St, Omaha, NE 68102, USAFlutist Christine Beard will perform music by composers who were persecuted, imprisoned, exiled, or murdered during the Holocaust, including Erwin Schulhoff, Leo Smit, Jan Novak, Vally Weigl, Marius Flothuis, Dick Kattenburg, & Ilse Weber.
- Dec 07, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PMSamuel Bak Museum & Learning Center, 2289 S 67th St, Omaha, NE 68106, USAFaculty and student performers from the UNO School of Music perform music that ties into the current art exhibit at the Samuel Bak Museum entitled "After the Storm: Identity & Repair." This concert is FREE and open to the public. Program TBA.
- Apr 23, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PMTemple Israel (Omaha), 13111 Sterling Ridge Dr, Omaha, NE 68144, USAChristine Beard will present a lecture-recital on the role of music during the Holocaust and discuss her research specific to the flute music she has uncovered, as part of the JCC's Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance). Details TBA.
Previous Events
- Sep 12, 2024, 7:00 PM – Sep 13, 2024, 3:00 PMUND Dept of Music, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USAXY Duo (Christine Beard, flute and Hannah Weaver, percussion) will serve as guest artists at the Univ of North Dakota. Program to include "Birds, Bees, Electric Fish" by Juri Seo, and "Wrought Iron" by Andrea Renkemeyer.
- Aug 29, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:45 PMIllinois Holocaust Museum, 9603 Woods Dr, Skokie, IL 60077, USAChristine Beard will present a lecture-recital on the role music played during the Holocaust, including performances of compositions by Marius Flothuis, Reine Colaço Osorio-Swabb, and an excerpt from the final work of Leo Smit.
- Aug 04, 2024, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PMSan Antonio, TX, 900 E Market St, San Antonio, TX 78205, USAChristine Beard will serve as a judge for the final round of the NFA Junior Soloist Competition on Sunday morning at 9am, and will do a meet-and-greet including a short performance in the Sankyo booth in the NFA exhibit hall after 11am (Time TBA).
- Aug 03, 2024, 2:15 PM – 3:15 PMSan Antonio, TX, 900 E Market St, San Antonio, TX 78205, USAChristine Beard will perform 2 works for piccolo composed in 2020: “Farewell Feathered Friends” for piccolo & backtrack by Dutch composer Jacob TV, and “(I’m)Migration” for solo piccolo by Israeli-British composer Talia Erdal.
- Aug 02, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:15 PMSan Antonio, TX, 900 E Market St, San Antonio, TX 78205, USAFlutists Christine Beard & Jeremy Benson will co-present a lecture recital entitled "The Banned Play On: Music by Exiled, and Persecuted Composers" featuring music by R. Wertheim, W. Gieseking, Chiang, J. Novak, T. de Hartmann, and more!
- Jun 12, 2024, 7:30 PM – 11:30 PMManhattan, Manhattan, KS, USAXY DuChristine Beard, flute & Hannah Weaver, percussion) perform the KS premiere of Juri Seo's new quartet, "Birds, Bees, Electric Fish" along with excerpts from John Luther Adams’ “Songbird Songs” during the Scheherazade Music Festival. With Lisa Bost-Sandberg, flute & Ryan Pearson, percussion.
- Jun 06, 2024, 5:30 PMSamuel Bak Learning Center (Omaha), 2289 S 67th St, Omaha, NE 68106, USAFlutist Christine Beard will present a lecture-recital on the role of music in the Holocaust, featuring a performance of works by Reine Colaço Osorio-Swaab and Rosy Wertheim. She will be joined by colleagues Mary Perkinson, violin; Tyler Sieh, viola; and Greg Clinton, cello.
- Apr 23, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PMUNO School of Music, 6305 S University Dr Rd N, Omaha, NE 68182, USAUNO’s professor of flute, Dr. Christine Beard, will perform Leanna Keith’s “Thoughts & Prayers” - commissioned by Beard as part of her #flutistactivist initiative - for flute and backtrack during UNO’s inaugural “My Stories” event.
- Mar 21, 2024, 5:15 PMSamuel Bak Learning Center (Omaha), 2289 S 67th St, Omaha, NE 68106, USAFlutists Claire James, Paige Michaud and Christine Beard perform music by Beethoven to precede the evening's lecture on "Bak and Bacon: Representing Postwar Angst" presented by Alexandra Cardon. [FREE but RSVP required]
- Feb 17, 2024, 7:30 PMSioux City Orpheum, Orpheum Electric Building, 528 Pierce St, Sioux City, IA 51101, USAChristine Beard joins the SCSO as 2nd flute for an eclectic program featuring COLERIDGE-TAYLOR’s The Song of Hiawatha (Overture); JEFFREY PAUL’s World Premiere (SCSO Commission); and ELGAR’s Symphony No. 1
- Feb 08, 2024, 5:15 PMSamuel Bak Learning Center (Omaha), 2289 S 67th St, Omaha, NE 68106, USAFlutists Claire James and Christine Beard perform music by the Italian Jewish composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco to precede the evening's lecture on "Etrucscan Archeology After World War II" presented by Bridgett Sandhoff. [FREE but RSVP required]
- Jan 27, 2024, 2:00 PM – Jan 28, 2024, 2:20 PMOrlando Marriott Lakeside Hotel, 7499 Augusta National Dr, Orlando, FL 32822, USAChristine Beard performs music for flute and piccolo by 3 American Women Composers: Leanna Keith, Eve Beglarian, and Lawren Brianna Ware. She also joins FFA Vice President Jeremy Benson in a performance of the popular "Andate and Rondo" for two flutes and piano by Doppler.
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