Guest Artist Christine Bailey Davis, Flute

Buffalo native Christine Bailey Davis is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she was a student of Philadelphia Orchestra flutist Jeffrey Khaner. She has also studied with James Galway, Carol Wincenc, Keith Underwood, and Marina Piccinini.Ms. Davis has been the principal flutist of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra since June 1995. She has also played guest principal in the Erie Philharmonic and assistant principal in the St. Louis Symphony. The Buffalo News has called her playing “immaculately accurate, but with a winning, casual, often jaunty approach to phrasing, while extremely complex runs and ornamentations seemed artlessly simple….”Ms. Davis has been performing around the Buffalo area as a soloist and ensemble player since she was eleven years old. She made her professional debut in 1992, at age 18, soloing with the New York City chamber orchestra Philharmonia Virtuosi at Artpark, in Lewiston, NY. Ms. Davis was named the winner of the Cleveland Institute of Music’s 1994 Spring Concerto Competition. She has been a frequent soloist with Ars Nova Musicians, as part of their Viva Vivaldi Festival and Red Jacket concert series.