Flutist Keren Schweitzer has performed with Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, and has toured throughout China, Japan, South America, Canada and the United States. She has appeared on numerous occasions with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and has performed chamber music concerts with its members. Additionally, she has routinely performed as Guest Principal Flute of the Reno Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Schweitzer is currently the Assistant Teaching Professor of Flute at Bowling Green State University. She has also served on faculty at Claremont Graduate University, Mount Saint Mary’s University, Cerritos College, and the Colburn School. Also a published writer, her articles on music have appeared in Symphony Magazine, The Paris New Music Review, and Salon Arts Magazine.
Keren has been the recipient of many awards including the winner of the 2011 Byron Hester Flute Competition, the winner of the 2010 National Flute Association Convention Performer’s Competition, First Prize at the 1997 Flute Talk Competition, and a finalist in the 2000 Concert Artists Guild Competition. While a student, she won the concerto competitions at Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. She has performed at the Tanglewood, Pacific, Spoleto, Caramoor, and Bowdoin Music Festivals and with the Verbier Festival Orchestra. Most recently, she has appeared in recital at the University of Idaho, Pasadena City College, the University of Houston, the 2017 MACCC convention in San Francisco, and at numerous National Flute Association Conventions.
As a flute teacher, her students have recently been accepted to prestigious institutions including the Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Peabody Conservatory, University of Michigan, University of Texas, UCLA, and Cal Arts. She has conducted masterclasses at the University of Idaho, The University of Southern Mississippi, Mexico City/YOLA- LA Philharmonic, and the Instituto Baccarelli. Included among her former flute students are the Principal Flute of the Milwaukee Symphony and a prizewinner in the Munich Competition.
Dr. Schweitzer is a graduate of the University of Michigan with honors, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and the Manhattan School of Music where she received her DMA in flute performance. Her principal teachers include Jeanne Baxtresser, Linda Chesis, and Byron Hester.
