Christina Webster

Flutist Christina Webster maintains an active and varied career as orchestral musician, recital soloist, chamber player, and teacher, and has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe. She earned her D.M.A. in Flute Performance at the Conservatory of Music and Dance of the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). Winner of a Fulbright Award, she earned a Postgraduate Performance Diploma with Merit at the Royal Academy of Music (London). Ms. Webster earned a Master of Music in Flute Performance at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance, and a Bachelor of Music in Flute and Piano Performance, summa cum laude, at the University of Kansas.

 She was a winner of the National Flute Association’s 2023 Convention Performers Competition, and recently performed at the 2023 NFA Convention in Phoenix, AZ. Ms. Webster has also been an invited performer at the 2023 Mid-Atlantic (Washington, D.C.) Flute Convention and will be performing and teaching at the 15th World Flutes Festival in Mendoza, Argentina this fall, all three solo flute works of Tōru Takemitsu. She holds the permanent position of Second Flute with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, and she performs as Principal Flute and frequent soloist with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, and as Principal Flute of the Kansas City-based newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble. She is also an active substitute/extra flute for the Kansas City Symphony. Ms. Webster has performed as Principal Flute of the Manson Ensemble, the Royal

Academy’s contemporary music ensemble, giving performances at the Oxford Festival of

Contemporary Music, the Duke’s Hall of the Royal Academy of Music, and alongside the London Sinfonietta at the Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Centre, London). She has also performed at the Purcell Room in London, the US Embassy in London, and in various venues throughout the UK, Germany, and Italy.

 Ms. Webster has taught at King’s College, London (on behalf of the Royal Academy of Music) and at Kansas State University as Visiting Assistant Professor of Flute. Principal teachers include William Bennett, John Boulton, Kate Hill, and Mary Posses.