Christine Gustafson has performed as a guest artist and has given masterclasses in the US, Asia, Europe and Brazil. As a Fulbright recipient in 2001-2002, she featured the music of living American composers in a performance project that took her to Taiwan and China, and she has served as a Discipline Reviewer in Music for the J. William Fulbright Foundation. She has contributed to The Flutist Quarterly and was a North Carolina Arts Council Visiting Artist for four years. Dr. Gustafson has recorded for the Albany Records, Gothic, AURecords and Sphere Sound labels, as well as for Greenville public television, where she is frequently featured on Channel 99.  She has performed for the conventions of the National Flute Association, the Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair, the Hampton Roads Flute Faire and the Raleigh Area Flute Association. She is a prizewinner in the Professional Performers Competition of the NFA.  As an orchestral and chamber music performer she has been a Fellow at the Salzburg Summer Academy Festival, the Waterloo Festival and the Sarasota Music Festival, and has served as solo flutist for the Banff Opera Orchestra at the Banff Music Centre in Canada.  Dr. Gustafson has appeared with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the Augusta Symphony, the Salisbury Symphony and the Orchestra of the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. An active proponent of New Music, she has premiered many new works, a number of which have been written for her, in a wide range of venues including the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, the National Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan, the Beijing Central Conservatory and the Shanghai Conservatory in China.  Composers Stephen Jaffe, Ken Kreuzer, Martha Horst, Yan Fu Rong and Donald Sloan have dedicated works to her.  She collaborated with distinguished composer Elena Ruehr on a newly commissioned work premiered in 2013, funded by the ECU Scholar-Teacher Award, which recognized Gustafson’s teaching in 2010. She has most recently participated in 2019-2020 commissioning consortiums for composer/pianist Amanda Harberg, with whom she performed at the 2018 NFA convention.  In 2019 Dr. Gustafson implemented a new international faculty-led Summer Study Abroad, Taiwan Chamber Music, Chinese Language and Culture (a for-credit course), in which students and faculty from the ECU School of Music and The University of Taipei rehearsed and performed chamber music together, and ECU students studied Chinese and visited traditional cultural sites.  Dr. Gustafson’s students have won awards at competitions of the National Flute Association, the Music Teacher’s National Association, The Flute View Competition, and the Raleigh Area Flute Association, as well as scholarships to major conservatories and summer courses in Chicago, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Los Angeles, New York, Brazil, France, Italy and Taiwan. Dr. Gustafson holds degrees from  Indiana University Bloomington (BM, Flute Performance), the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst (now the University of Music and Performing Arts) in Vienna, Austria (Artist Diploma), The Eastman School of Music (MM, Flute Performance), and The University of Texas at Austin (DMA, Flute Performance).  Her principal teachers include Harry Houdeshel, Louis Rivière, Wolfgang Schulz, Karl Kraber and Carol Wincenc. Christine Gustafson is professor of flute at East Carolina University, where she is a member of the Coastal Winds Quintet.  She served as 2019 artist flute faculty of the Global Summer Institute of Music at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, where she performed with other guest artist faculty, coaching chamber music and teaching  students (scholarships available to students from the ECU Flute Studio) from around the world.  In 2024 she was a featured guest artist of Kelariz Keshavarz in masterclass and recital at the Western Carolina University Flute Festival.

 
葛慧清 Christine Gustafson /長笛                 
 
葛慧清博士畢業於印第安納大學、維也納音樂院、伊士曼音樂院、德州大學奧斯汀分校，曾受教於Harry Houdeshel、Louis Rivière、Wolfgang Schulz、Karl Kraber、Carol Wincenc，目前為活耀於國際樂壇的長笛家，曾在美國、亞洲、歐洲和巴西…等地舉辦大師班及音樂會。 於2001-2002擔任傅爾布萊特美籍學人及該基金會的音樂審查者，除進行學術交流外，亦將美國作曲家的音樂介紹給臺灣與中國樂壇。擔任北卡羅萊納藝術協會客座藝術家4年期間，也為「長笛季刊」撰稿，獲得好評。在以下的唱片公司均可找到她的錄音：Albany Records、Gothic、 AURecords、Sphere Sound labels，南卡羅萊納 格林維爾公共電視99頻道常會播放她的演奏。
        葛慧清以演奏家的身分與許多樂團合作，如：北卡羅來納交響樂團、維吉尼亞交響樂團、奧古斯塔交響樂團、索爾茲伯里交響樂團、維也納城堡劇院交響樂團、加拿大班夫歌樂院，並常受邀至音樂協會或音樂節中演出，如：美國長笛協會(NFA)、華府長笛協會、漢普敦若茲長笛協會、北卡州長笛協會、薩爾茲堡音樂節、滑鐵盧音樂節、薩拉索塔音樂節，曾為1995年NFA長笛比賽獲獎者。
        葛慧清也是一位致力推動新音樂的演奏家，有許多當代作曲家將作品交由她進行世界首演，如：Elena Ruehr、Stephen Jaffe、Ken Kreuzer、Martha Horst、Donald Sloan、嚴福榮(目前任教於臺灣東吳大學音樂系)，甘迺迪表演藝術中心(美國)、國家音樂廳(臺灣)、北京中央音樂學院和上海音樂學院(中國)均有她演出的足跡。同時，她也熱衷於教學，所指導的學生曾在許多重要比賽中獲獎，如：NFA、美國
音樂教育家協會、北卡州長笛協會，或取得音樂營及音樂院獎學金。
  現在的她除了擔任東卡羅萊納長笛教授外，常與鋼琴家Jeremy Thompson合作演出、與同校吉他博士--Elliot Frank組成St. Caecilia二重奏，並為Coastal木管五重奏的一員。
(Chinese bio courtesy of Shaun Liang)

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