Search - Mary Matthews (flute and piccolo), Matthew Angelo (flute and piccolo), Nicole Chamberlain (flute) :: Three-Nine Line - Flute Music of Nicole Chamberlain: Asphyxia, Chatter, In Cahoots, Lilliputian, Mintaka, Percolate, Smorgasbord and Three-Nine Line [World Premiere Recordings]

Nicole Chamberlain maintains an active career as a composer and flutist. As a composer, she won the 2010 Audience Favorite award at the Atlanta Opera s 24-Hour Opera Project for her opera, Scrub-A-Dub Raw, which resulted in the Atlanta Opera's first commission of a children's opera, Chamberlain s Rabbit Tales. The work received more than 50 performances, effectively launching her career. She has been commissioned by numerous other ensembles, including the Georgia Symphony Orchestra, Oklahoma Flute Society, Atlanta Flute Club and Cuatro Puntos. A frequent award-winner, Chamberlain took first place in the 2013 Areon Flutes Composition Competition, 2015 Flute View Composition Competition and 2017 National Flute Association Flute Choir Composition Competition. She took second place in the Flute New Music Consortium Composition Competitions in 2014 and 2016. Mary Matthews is an accomplished flutist, new music advocate and pedagogue. She has performed in recital at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Fundação Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina in Brazil and Festival Goethe Institut Música Nueva and Jornadas de Música Contemporánea in Bolivia, among others. Matthews has also performed at the Newport Music Festival, Maryland Wind Festival, New Music Gathering and at five National Flute Association conventions. A dedicated chamber musician, she is a founding member of Duo Rossignol with soprano Hillary LaBonte and regularly collaborates with musicians around the country. Matthews was appointed principal flutist of the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra during the 2012-2013 season, and in this capacity has collaborated with some of New England's leading new music organizations. She has won numerous performance competitions, including the International American Protégé Woodwinds Competition, South Carolina Flute Society Young Artist Competition, Kathryn E. MacPhail Young Artist Concerto Competition and Firelands Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition. Matthew Angelo is a highly versatile orchestral, chamber and solo flutist. He has performed across the United States and internationally in notable venues, including the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Angelo has performed with the Bay-Atlantic Symphony, Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra and is the second flutist of the Liberty Wind Symphony. Angelo is a member of the Manor Winds woodwind quintet and during the summer season performs with the Maryland Wind Festival. He performed to high acclaim with flutists Nicole Chamberlain and Mary Matthews at the 2016 National Flute Association Convention in San Diego. A strong advocate of new music, he has been involved in numerous world premiere performances. Jessica Nilles is an active soloist, performing regularly in notable venues, including the Esterházy Palace in Austria in a program of works by Beethoven. A strong advocate for new music, Nilles frequently performs in Pendulum New Music concerts at the University of Northern Iowa and with the Colorado New Music Ensemble, with which she collaborated in a production of Paul Moravec's Tempest Fantasy. She has performed with numerous instrumentalists and singers, including University of Northern Iowa music faculty in A Night at the Opera and with Wartburg College's Artist-in-Residence, Simon Estes, with whom she performed at the White House and on tour throughout Iowa.