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!
