KARIN AURELL, Woodwinds & Woodwind Ensembles

Karin Aurell teaches flute in the Mount Allison University music  department. She performs with woodwind quintet Ventus Machina and  can also be heard playing with Symphony New Brunswick and the  Charlottetown Festival Orchestra. Before moving to Canada from her  native Sweden, Karin played principal flute in the Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, on Sweden's Baltic coast. With this orchestra, she performed all across Europe, and recorded extensively on the BIS and  CPO labels. She has worked with such distinguished conductors as  Franz Welser-Most, Manfred Honeck, Daniel Harding, Leif Segerstam and Okko Kamu.  

Karin has recorded a number of solo albums – Nightingales for Katy (solo flute); Roots and In the Weeds (with Ventus Machina) and two  albums with Trio Arkaede together with Isabelle Fournier, violin, and Julien LeBlanc, piano. She has a particular interest in performing newly  written music and has collaborated with many of the composers who live  in the Maritimes. 

Karin's students have gone on to win the national music festival, take  part in the National Youth Orchestra of Canada summer program, and  win numerous scholarships. Former students have gone on to study flute at The Curtis Institute, The Glenn Gould School, the Manhattan School  of Music, University of Toronto, Université de Montreal, University of Ottawa, and the McGill Schulich School of Music.  

When not playing or teaching, Karin is an avid traveller and loves to spend her time outdoors - hiking, skiing, and learning about all things wild.