Patricia Creighton
Flute
BMus (Toronto)
E-mail: Patricia.Creighton@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 494-2418
Web: http://www.patriciacreighton.com
Biography:
Patricia Creighton is currently Principal Flutist with Symphony Nova Scotia, a position she has held since its inception in 1984. Her extensive repertoire spans from baroque to modern in solo, concerto, chamber and orchestral literature. She has performed with many illustrious musicians from around the country and is well known to audiences around the Maritimes. Aside from a busy performing schedule, Ms. Creighton shares her love of music by teaching as a flute instructor at Dalhousie University's Department of Music in Halifax and at Acadia University's School of Music.
Several of Ms. Creighton's discs have been nominated for ECMA awards. Her first disc, Abraxas, was a CBC lease-back and an ECMA nominated dis and was used to create a ballet for ARC Dance, premiered in May 2000 in Seattle, Washington. Her second CD, The Transcontinental, represents musical snapshots of different countries. Her 2007 disc, Melodies of Love, with harpist Karen Rokos, was a 2008 ECMA and MIANS Best Classical Album nominee. Their duo "Nova Brilliante" presentes concerts through the Maritimes. Wind Song, with pianist Peter Allen, was nominated for a 2009 ECMA and MIANS Best Classical Album award. Her latest disc, The 12 Celtic Winds (2009), pairs her with didgeridoo master Paul Newton in a fascinating improvised mandala depicting characteristics of the twelve directional winds as observed by the ancient Gaelic people. Ms. Creighton has been an Artist in Residence at The Banff Centre and holds a BMus from the University of Toronto. She won her first audition just months after graduation to become Symphony Nova Scotia's Prima Flautist. She can be heard regularly on CBC Radio 2. Visit www.cdbaby.com and iTunes for her recordings.
As a chamber and orchestral artist, Ms. Creighton has performed with such distinguished artists as Julius Baker, Robert Cram, Victor Yampolsky, Isaac Stern, Maureen Forrester, William Tritt, Peter Bowman, Steven Dann, Fred Sherry, Malcolm Lowe, Erica Goodman, Anton Kuerti, Peter Allen, Jeanne Lamon, Georg Tintner, Simon Streatfield, Mario Bernardi, Grant Llewelyn, Boris Brott, Denise Djokic, Rene Fleming, Bernhard Gueller and many others. She is a regular guest artist with the Scotia Festival of Music and most Nova Scotian concert series. She also occasionally performs at the New Brunswick Summer Music Festival in Fredericton and the Kincardine Summer Music Festival in Ontario. Outside of Canada, she has performed concerts in the United States, Germany, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Mexico City.
Born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario, she won many prizes at an early age in the Kiwanis Music Festival and won First Prize in the Ontario Provincial Competition, and then Second Prize in the National Competition. She was also the wind category winner in the Guelph Spring Festival Competition and the DuMaurier Search for the Stars. She studied for many years intensively with Louis Moyse. At the University of Toronto she studied with Nora Shulman and Jeanne Baxtresser. During and following university studies, she attended the Banff Centre for the Arts several times as an Artist in Residence.
During her first year in Halifax, Ms. Creighton won a Canada Council B Grant to pursue further studies in Banff. She has also attended the Johannesen International School of Music and individual master classes and/or lessons with Jean-Pierre Rampal, James Galway, Marcel Moyse, Samuel Baron, Robert Aitken, Robert Cram, William Bennett, Jeanne Baxtresser and Julius Baker.
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