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Shanna Gutiérrez appears throughout the US and abroad as a soloist, clinician, and a core member of Ensemble Dal Niente, with whom she was awarded a Kranischsteiner Stipend Prize at the 2010 Darmstadt Summer Courses. During the 2011 Stockhausen Courses, she received a prize for her performance of THINKI. She has been featured on live radio broadcasts for WFMT Chicago, performances at Carnegie Hall and the Chicago Cultural Center, contemporary music festivals throughout the US, and concerts and residencies in Colombia, Germany and Switzerland.
Ms. Gutiérrez has been involved with the commissioning and premiere performances of dozens of works, including US premieres of works by Michel van der Aa, Malin Bång, Claus-Steffan Mahnkopf, and Karlheinz Stockhausen (THINKI, November 2011). Upcoming projects include the world premiere performance and recording of Mobile 2012 for flute solo by Fredrick Gifford in Portugal. She has also worked with notable twenty-first Century composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Mark André, and Hans Thomalla. Ms. Gutiérrez is the founder of Sonic Sculptures--A Journey in Sound, through which she presents concerts and workshops on contemporary flute music and techniques throughout the US and abroad.
Ms. Gutiérrez received performance degrees from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University. She has studied contemporary music with Matthias Ziegler, Camilla Hoitenga, Eva Furrer, Philippe Racine, and Kathinka Pasveer. She is also a former fellow of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival. A passionate educator, she is on faculty at the Music Institute of Chicago, and received her Suzuki teacher training from David Gerry and Kelly Williamson. She maintains an active teaching studio in Evanston and at the Midwest Young Artists Facility. Shanna performs on a Burkart flute and piccolo.
