Julie Hobbs
Assistant Professor of Flute
Education:
- D.M. Flute Performance: Northwestern University
- M.M. Baylor University
- B.M. University of Iowa
Courses Taught:
- Applied Flute
- Musicianship (Music Theory and Ear-Training) for first-year music students
- Coaches the UWSP Flue Ensemble
Biography:
As an educator, Dr. Hobbs has presented and performed at major conferences throughout the United States, including the 2008 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic as well as conventions for the National Flute Association, MENC, American Bandmasters Association, Texas Music Educators Association, Iowa Music Educators Association, Tennessee Music Educators Association, the Chicago Flute Club, and the Wisconsin Flute Fair. Her dynamic presentations and energetic teaching style make her quite in demand as a teacher, adjudicator, and clinician.
Winner of the 2009 National Flute Association’s Outstanding Dissertation Award for her work on George Crumb’s use of program, Dr. Hobbs is one of the country’s leading experts on the music of Crumb. She presented two lectures on George Crumb at the National Flute Association’s 2009 convention in New York City and her interview with the composer is featured in the Fall 2009 issue of the Flutist Quarterly. She is also the author of a Flute Ensemble Method Book and has published articles in Flute Talk, the Chicago Flute Club’s Pipeline, and program notes for the Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra.
Active as a performer, she appears regularly as a soloist and with the chamber trio Tresillo and is principal flute of the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra, the Des Moines Metro Opera, and the Waco Symphony. An ardent proponent of contemporary music, Dr. Hobbs has commissioned and premiered several original works and arrangements and has appeared at many new music festivals, most recently at the Southeast Composers Forum in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Dr. Hobbs holds a Doctor of Music degree in Flute Performance from Northwestern University as well as degrees from Baylor University and the University of Iowa. Her primary teachers include Walfrid Kujala, Helen Ann Shanley, and Betty Mather. She previously held positions at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and Northwestern University as a lecturer and was an instructor at the National High School Music Institute. In addition, she served on the faculty of the Merit School of Music in Chicago and has lectured at the Chicago Cultural Center and Oakton Community College.
Julie Hobbs is a Miyazawa Artist
