Jennifer Rhyne
Jennifer Rhyne serves as Associate Professor of Flute and Music Theory at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington where she also directs the Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble. Before joining the faculty of PLU, Rhyne taught at Fort Hays State University in Kansas. The North Carolina native holds degrees in Flute Performance and in Neuroscience from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, as well as degrees in Flute Performance from the University of Michigan and Stony Brook University. She pursued non-degree studies at the École Normale de Musique in Paris.
She has won prizes in competitions sponsored by the National Flute Association, the Texas Flute Society, the Albuquerque Flute Association, and the Washington, DC Flute Society. She holds the positions of Second Flute with Symphony Tacoma and Principal Flute with Vashon Opera, and appears regularly with ensembles including Northwest Sinfonietta, Lyric Opera Northwest, the Blessed Sacrament Baroque Orchestra, and on programs such as the Second City Chamber Music Series and at the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts. She has been a recipient of performance and research grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the State of Iowa, and Pacific Lutheran University.
A dedicated pedagogue, her articles have been published in School Band and Orchestra Magazine, Flute Talk, and The Flutist Quarterly. She has been a featured lecturer and masterclass clinician at state and national music conferences and universities world wide. She served as the Assistant Program Chair for the 2017 National Flute Association’s Convention. Her sabbatical research during 2021 on collegiate-level eurhythmics (movement paired with music to improve rhythm, phrasing, and musicality) took her to the Cleveland Institute of Music and Carnegie Mellon University to observe classes taught by master teachers in the subject.
She enjoys performing a wide variety of music from all genres and eras, including historically-informed performances of early music on a one-keyed wooden flute as well as performances of avant-garde contemporary solo and chamber works.