Dr. Julee Kim Walker to present Celebrating Women Composers Recital

On Sunday, February 23rd, 3:00pm, the Associate Professor of Flute at Texas A&M University-Commerce Dr. Julee Kim Walker will host her own recital titled Celebrating Women Composers. Presented with the Mu Phi Epsilon Dallas Alumni Chapter Concert Series in recognition of Women’s History Month in March, this program will feature Alan Dyer, Staff Pianist at TAMUC; Mary Kerr, Principal Flutist of the Abilene Philharmonic; Jessica Morrow, graduate student at Texas A&M University-Commerce; and Allison Adams Rojas, M.M. of Texas A&M University-Commerce.

Admission is free to all and open to the public at Dallas Public Library (1515 Young St, Dallas, TX). Free parking will be available in the library garage underneath the venue.

The recital will feature Margaret Lowe, Yuko Uebayashi, Catherine McMichael, Da Jeong Choi, Jennifer Higdon, Yuko Uebayashi, Katherine Hoover, and Cecile Chaminade.

• Dawn Carol by Margaret Lowe 
• Le Vent a Travers Les Ruines by Yuko Uebayashi (b. 1958)
• Floris by Catherine McMichael (1954)
• Cantus Curatio III by Da Jeong Choi (b. 1973) 
• Song by Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962)
• Town Light by Yuko Uebayashi (b. 1958) 
• Spirit Flight by Katherine Hoover (1937-2018)
• Concertino by Cecile Chaminade (1857-1944)

A native Houstonian, flutist Julee Kim Walker remains an active performer and pedagogue in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex. She is the Associate Professor of Flute at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Prior to her appointment, she held teaching positions at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Grayson College, Eastfield College, and the University of North Texas. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her Master’s degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She received the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Texas. She is the Artistic Director of the annual Texas Summer Flute Symposium.

As a soloist, she has performed with the Dallas Asian Wind Ensemble, American Wind Symphony Orchestra, Southeastern Symphonic Winds, Texas A&M University-Commerce Wind Ensemble and Banda Sinfônica de Cubatão in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Julee has also performed with notable flutists such as Ian Clarke, Amy Porter, Christina Jennings, and Carol Wincenc.

Recent engagements include a Texas tour with the Texas Guitar Quartet, performance at the World Saxophone Congress in Zagreb, Croatia, and recitals and masterclasses in Shanghai, China and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Overseas, she was a flutist for the Austrian American Mozart Academy Opera Festival in Salzburg, Austria for 4 seasons, and also performed as Principal flutist with the Franco-American Vocal Academy Opera Festival in Perigueux, France, and the Red River Lyric Opera Festival in Wichita Falls, TX.

An esteemed teacher, Dr. Walker was the 2016 recipient of the Paul W. Barrus Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching and is sought-after as a clinician, adjudicator, and for masterclasses and lectures all over the world, including University of North Texas, CU Boulder, Florida State University, Shanghai Normal University in China, and the Guri Project in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

As an adjudicator, Dr. Walker has adjudicated for the UIL Texas State Solo and Ensemble Competition, Sigma Alpha Iota Triennial, the Mid-South Flute Society, Houston Flute Club, Oklahoma Flute Society, TMTA and MTNA competitions, the Texas Flute Society’s Myrna Brown competition, and the National Flute Association’s Professional Flute Choir and Newly Published Music competitions. Dr. Walker currently serves as the President of the Texas Flute Society and serves on the NFA Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Dr. Walker has performed with The Dallas Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Fort Worth Symphony, Dallas Chamber Symphony, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, South Arkansas Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, Sherman Symphony, The Dallas Winds, Lyric Stage and Abilene Philharmonic. Her principal teachers include Terri Sundberg, Tim Day, Karl Kraber, Christina Jennings, September Payne, Helen Blackburn, and Elizabeth McNutt.