Former Director of TACTUS; Chair of Contemporary Performance Program E-mail  pattimonson@earthlink.net

“Ms. Monson, pushing the edges of contemporary technique.... seemed fully at ease with the demands these works made, but the most compelling aspect of her performance was the degree to which she let musicality take over. “ —Allan Kozinn, The New York Times “Monson taps virtuosity on many levels.” —Robert Kirzinger, Fanfare Magazine PATTI MONSON TACTUS’s conductor of five years, Patti Monson is flutist for the new music ensemble Sequitur as well as a member of the faculty at the Bang On A Can Summer Institute, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the Perlman Institute. She is also a frequent guest artist on many recital series dedicated to new music, and has been invited to give master classes on contemporary repertoire and extended sounds at universities and conservatories around the world. She is responsible for the commissions of several new flute works under the title chamber music for solo flute, a collection of pieces that are multi-voiced, in many different ways, for one flutist. The commissions for these pieces encourage the composers to create using multi-phonics, electronics, video, and extended voice sounds or spoken text processed or delayed with implied counterpoint or harmony or pre-recorded flutes in ways they find fascinating. Her new recording, High Art (Albany), is the second disc in a series dedicated to these commissions. It includes new works by Harold Meltzer, Steven Burke, Mathew Rosenblum, and Randall Woolf. She has appeared as a guest of the American Academy in Rome, the Music from Stanford University series, Pittsburgh’s Music on the Edge series, New York's Bang On A Can Marathon and Summer Institute, the Open Ears Festival, Locrian Chamber Players, Modern Works, the Asia Society, Music at the Anthology, the Sonic Boom Festival, June in Buffalo, Festival in the Hamptons, Music from China, the Lincoln Center Summer Festival, the Lake Placid Institute for the Arts, the Kitchen and the Joyce Theater/Soho (both with Molissa Fenley), the Houston Contemporary Arts Festival, Flute Force, the Festival Internationale de Costa Rica, Ensemble 21 of New York, the Festival for Music of Extended Duration–Prague, the Common Sense Composers Collective, the Gaudeamus Festival–Rotterdam, the Bach Aria, Spoleto, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals, and the National Flute Association. Other releases include a new disc of works of Lewis Spratlan and a CD called Concertos, music of Musgrave, Rakowski, Carter and Meltzer (both on Sequitur); Conspirare/chamber music for solo flute (CRI); Takemitsu’s flute duets Masque, with flutist Laura Gilbert (Koch); Randy Wolf’s Where The Wild Things Are (CRI); Joe Jackson’s Symphony No. 1 (Sony Classical), honored with a Grammy as Best Pop Instrumental Album of 2000); and Steve Reich's Eight Lines with Bang On A Can (Nonesuch). Ms. Monson holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Yale University School of Music. Her private teachers have included Thomas Nyfenger, Bonita Boyd, Robert Dick, Samuel Baron, and Judith Mendenhall. Manhattan School of Music faculty 2000 - 2007.

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