Flutist
Carla Copeland-Burns enjoys an active teaching and
performing career based in North Carolina. Noted as a
flexible and versatile player, Copeland-Burns currently
performs with the Greensboro, North Carolina, and Salisbury
Symphonies as well as North Carolina Opera, Carolina
Ballet, Blue Mountain, Mallarmé Chamber Players, and with
the performer-composer collective Forecast Music.
Enthusiastic about new works, Copeland-Burns has been a
member of commissioning projects and premiere performances
with all of her chamber ensembles and as a soloist. She is
equally comfortable performing as a soloist, orchestral
player, chamber musician, and playing contemporary music in
alternative settings.
As a teacher,
Copeland-Burns most recently served on the faculty of the
University of North Carolina at Greensboro after eight
years as Instructor of flute at Radford University. Guest
artist-teacher appearances include schools such as the New
Zealand School of Music, Auckland University, University of
Southern Maryland, University of North Carolina School of
the Arts, and Florida State University. She has been a
featured performer at National Flute Association
Conventions and at several International Double Reed
Society Conferences in the US, Canada, and Australia. In
summers she has been associated with the New England Music
Camp, Eastern Music Festival, and the InterHarmony
International Music Festival in Italy and Germany. Her
students have successfully auditioned into festivals,
competitions, and music schools throughout the US and
abroad with many currently working as music educators,
music therapists, arts administrators, and
performers.
Copeland-Burns has enjoyed performing
opportunities under conductors Grant Llewellyn, Gerard
Schwarz, Bobby McFerrin, Gerhart Zimmermann, Timothy Myers,
Stuart Malina, and Dmitry Sitkovetsky. She has recorded
with ensembles on the Albany, Centaur, and Klavier labels
and has been heard on several editions of NPR's Performance
Today. Mentors include Charles DeLaney, Lois Schaefer,
Carol Wincenc, and Nadine Asin and her degrees are from
Florida State University, New England Conservatory, and the
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
(CCM).
She had additional study
in baroque flute with Stephen Preston, orchestral classes
with Peter Lloyd, and in Jack Wellbaum’s piccolo courses at
CCM.
