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Lisamarie McGrath, Flutist

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A native of Colorado, Lisamarie McGrath began her flute studies at 15 years of age with soloist and chamber musician, Susanella Noble.  Lisamarie journeyed to the East Coast in 1985 to study flute with the renowned principal flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Murray Panitz.  In 1989, she graduated (cum laude)  with a Bachelor of Music degree from Temple University.  In 1991, Lisamarie engaged in private study with David Cramer (Associate Principal, Philadelphia Orchestra) and Mark Sparks (Principal Flute, St. Louis Symphony). 

Currently residing in Pennsylvania with her partner in life, Andrew McGrath, and two entertaining gorgeous felines, Lisamarie McGrath works as a skilled chamber musician, soloist, teacher and recording artist.  Her distinguished career has included solo, chamber, ethnic, and orchestral performances in such diverse places as Great Britain, Colorado, Wyoming, and the Mid-Atlantic area. 

In 2010, Lisamarie Released Unimagined Bridges...Fountain of Consciousness, a CD featuring a commissioned work by Andrea Clearfield for silver flute and Native American flutes called Unimagined Bridges.  
The CD also includes pieces by James DeMars, Gary Schocker, Katherine Hoover, R. Carlos Nakai, and Earth Meditations by Lisamarie McGrath.     

In 2007, Lisamarie released The Colors Fall, a beautiful double-CD of 20th century classical flute music featuring works by Copland, Bloch, Ibert, Hoover, Hindemith, DeMars, Saint-Saëns, Roussel, Ravel, and Debussy.  

Lisamarie’s honors include being a winner of the National Flute Association’s Orchestral Audition Masterclass Competition in 1991 with Leone Buyse.  She won the 1991 Pottstown Symphony Young Artists Concerto Competition and performed the Cimarosa Concerto in A Major for two Flutes with the Pottstown Symphony.  Lisamarie also won the Fort Collins Young Artist Concerto Competition, Junior Division, in 1983.

Lisamarie has studied, cultivated and honed her musical craft for 28 years, in which time she has concertized extensively throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, as well as Great Britain, Colorado and Wyoming.  Utilizing the healing powers of music has been an integral part of Lisamarie's life.  Lisamarie has worked as a music therapist for special needs children in the Ken Crest Centers of Philadelphia, where she touched and was touched by the amazing miraculous healing and growth of very unique children attending the schools.  She has also shared her musical gifts by mesmerizing Elders in nursing homes, private homes and in hospital, as well as performing in sacred ceremonies!

In addition to music, her interests include running, biking, photography, cooking, reading, gardening, being environmentally active, and making a difference in her community.  
Aho Mitakuye Oyasin!  Namaste!


Copyright © 2010 Lisamarie McGrath