The UVA Flute Ensemble is pleased to present its Spring 2025 Recital on Sunday, April 13th at 1:00 pm in the Rotunda Dome Room.
The UVA Flute Ensemble, directed by Kelly Sulick, is composed of talented student musicians majoring in all areas of study. Recitals feature music from all eras and styles and include pieces for larger flute ensembles and smaller chamber works. Students perform with and without a conductor. Recent performances have celebrated the works of J.S. Bach, Valerie Coleman, Claude Debussy, Jennifer Higdon, Allison Loggins-Hull, Catherine McMichael, Judy Nishimura, Mike Mower, and G.P. Telemann, among others. The group presents a full recital at the end of each semester and also performs throughout the community.
The UVA students in the 2025 Flute Ensemble are Prisha Bahl, Sarita Baron, Samantha Callahan, Nora Cheng, Leah Gunnoe, Anisha Jarang, Holly Kiker, Elizabeth Mayhood, Lauren Nguyen, Katherine Tang, Nick Witkowski, and Wenwan Xu.
Guest Soloist Martha Conwell Long
Martha Conwell Long joined the Baltimore Symphony in September 2024 as their new principal flute. Previously she held the same position with the Oregon Symphony and the Oregon Bach Festival for eight seasons, the San Antonio Symphony for four seasons, and the Fort Collins Symphony in Colorado for three seasons. Martha has appeared as guest principal flute with the Chicago, Baltimore, and Pacific Symphonies and ProMusica Chamber Orchestra. During the summer of 2024, she performed with the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, CA. Martha grew up in Chapel Hill, NC, where she studied with Brooks de Wetter-Smith and Helen Spielman. She completed her Bachelor of Music degree at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, studying with Jim Walker. Martha continued her studies at the New England Conservatory in Boston, completing a Graduate Diploma as a student of Elizabeth Rowe. While in school, she received fellowships to the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and Tanglewood Music Center, including two summers as a New Fromm Player. As a student, Martha was a prize winner at the Mid-South Flute Society Young Artist Competition, the Pittsburgh Flute Club Young Artist Concerto Competition, the National Flute Association’s Orchestral Audition Competition, and the NFA’s Young Artist Competition.
Martha plays on a handmade Powell flute and is a Powell Artist. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, baking, and exploring her new hometown.
The University of Virginia's Rotunda was designed by Thomas Jefferson as the architectural and academic heart of the University's community of scholars. He named the University’s original buildings the “Academical Village.” As the phrase suggests, the Academical Village is based on the Jeffersonian principle that learning is a lifelong process, and that interaction between faculty and students is vital to the pursuit of knowledge. Jefferson modeled the Rotunda after the Pantheon, a second-century temple in Rome. Construction began in 1822 and was completed in 1826, shortly after Jefferson’s death on July 4 of that year. Together with Monticello, the Academical Village is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Parking is on the street or in one of the many parking lots and garages on "the Corner" or in the Central Grounds Parking Garage. The Charlottesville Free Trolley stops in front of the Rotunda on University Avenue.
All programs are subject to change.
For more information, please contact the Department of Music at 434.924.3052 or music@virginia.edu with any questions.