Dr. Karen Demsey
Associate Professor
Flute, Music History

Office: Shea Auditorium, Room 168
Phone: (973) 720-3199
E-mail: demseyk@wpunj.edu

Dr. Karen Demsey, M.M. Eastman School of Music, D.M.A. Rutgers University, is Associate Professor of flute and music history at William Paterson University. She has published articles on flute pedagogy, presents clinics and master classes throughout the country and is principal flute with the professional orchestra in residence at William Paterson University. Her CD, Recollections of the Inland Sea, internationally distributed on Capstone Records and featuring music for flute and marimba with duo partner Greg Giannascoli, includes the premiere of a work commissioned for the duo Capstone Records . She is a member of the Artists International Award-winning chamber group, UpTown Flutes, and is featured on their CD, A Flute Renaissance. UpTown Flutes is currently recording their third CD featuring world premieres of two pieces written for the ensemble by internationally known composer Peter Bacchus. The group's Carnegie Hall debut was described in New York Concert Review as
"organic...mesmerizing....UpTown Flutes deserves major attention as they are top-notch and one of a kind." (June 2002) Uptown Flutes