National Adult Amateur Competition

She held the position of Acting Principal Flute for the 2011–2012 season, serves on the faculty at the University of Utah as Adjunct Associate Professor of Flute, and has also served on the faculty at Brigham Young University.

Lisa earned her Bachelor of Music degree at the Curtis Institute of Music and her Master of Music degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, with some undergraduate studies at the Eastman School of Music. Her major teachers were Julius Baker, Jeffrey Khaner, Timothy Day, Bonita Boyd, Richard Sherman, and Caryl Mae Scott. Prior to the Utah Symphony she was a member of the New World Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas, and held the position of Principal Flute with the San Francisco Opera / Western Opera Theatre and the Sarasota Opera Company. She has performed at Tanglewood, the National Repertory Orchestra, the Chautauqua Music Festival, and the International Music Festival in Evian, France, and has appeared as a concert soloist with several orchestras.

One of her passions is playing and coaching chamber music. She has served on the faculty of the Humboldt State University Sequoia Chamber Music Workshop for 25 years and performs with groups including The Left Coast Ensemble, Alternate Currents, Nova Chamber Series, Intermezzo Chamber Series, Three Fish and a Scorpion, and Sundays@7. A native of northern California, she grew up in Arnold in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and enjoys skiing, hiking, the National Parks, and her ceramics studio.

Christina Castellanos is the Assistant Professor of Flute at Brigham Young University. A proud native of Bountiful, Utah, Christina’s primary teacher was Nancy Toone, and she later received her Bachelors and Masters degrees, graduating Magna Cum Laude as the Outstanding Senior and Summa Cum Laude as the Outstanding Graduate, with Dr. Richard Soule at The University of Nevada, Las Vegas while also serving as president of Sigma Alpha Iota and the Las Vegas Flute Club.

Since then, Christina has enjoyed a prosperous and diverse musical career. After becoming 2nd Flutist of The Las Vegas Philharmonic at the age of 22 and later appointed to Principal Flutist, Christina quickly established herself as a top call freelance musician on the Las Vegas Strip, playing hundreds of shows over a 6 year run of Phantom – The Las Vegas Spectacular, as well as backing countless headliners – most notably: Placido Domingo, Pavarotti, Frank Sinatra Jr., Andrea Bocelli, Harry Connick Jr., Weird Al Yankovic, and Seth MacFarlane. She has had the pleasure of playing under the direction of Itzhak Perlman and Michael Giacchino, and shared the stage with artists such as STING, Ben Folds, Kristen Chenoweth, Renee Fleming, The Beach Boys, Arturo Sandoval, Il Divo, Gentri, Kansas, The Who, and Journey.

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