Sarah Beth Hanson Adjunct Professor Flute Office: 319 Clement Hall Phone: (731) 881-7402 Email: shanson1@utm.edu Web: www.sarahbethhanson.com/

Flutist Sarah Beth Hanson joined the UTM music faculty in 2009. She also is the piccolist with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Before joining the MSO in 2004, she was principal flutist of the Baton Rouge Symphony and the Louisiana Sinfonietta, where she was frequently featured with both groups. She has held faculty positions at Southeastern Louisiana University, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and most recently at Murray (KY) State University, where she was a Guest Instructor of Flute during the 2008-2010 academic years. She is also in frequent demand around the Southeast as a recitalist, adjudicator and clinician, and has performed solo recitals in Canada.

In the spring of 1999 Ms Hanson gave her New York debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, with a return engagement in 2000. In 2004 she performed in Athens, Greece at the historic Parnassas Theatre. Upon her return from Greece, Ms Hanson was featured in a concert at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium in Washington, D.C. She has been listed on the Louisiana State Artist Roster and is a Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship Recipient. Ms Hanson is featured on several compact discs of music by renowned composer Dinos Constantinides, and has released a solo disc of favorite French melodies entitled The Girl with the Flaxen Hair.

She received her Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees from Florida State University, where she was a student of Charles DeLaney. In addition to her duties at UTM, Ms Hanson maintains a private flute studio in Jackson, TN, and lives on a farm in Henderson, TN, with her husband, Kenny and son, Ethan.