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• Christine Gustafson has performed as guest artist and given masterclasses on four continents. A Fulbright recipient in 2001-2002, she featured music of living American composers in a performance project in Taiwan and China and later served asa Fulbright Discipline Reviewer in Music. She has contributed to The Flutist Quarterly and Flute Talk and has recorded for Albany Records, AURecords and Sphere Sound. She is artist faculty for the Global Summer Institute of Music at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and has performed for National Flute Association and Mid-Atlantic Flute Conventions among others. Gustafson is a past prizewinner in the NFA Convention Performers Competition. She was a Fellow at the Salzburg Summer Academy, Waterloo and Sarasota Music Festivals, and for the Banff Opera Orchestra at Banff Music Centre, Canada. Gustafson has performed with the North Carolina Symphony, Virginia Symphony and the Orchestra of the Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria. Her students have won awards at NFA and MTNA competitions and scholarships to major conservatories. Dr. Gustafson holds degrees from IU Bloomington (BM), the University for Music, Vienna, Austria (Artist Diploma), Eastman (MM), and UT Austin (DMA). Her principal teachers include Harry Houdeshel, Louis Rivière, Wolfgang Schulz, Karl Kraber and Carol Wincenc. Gustafson is professor of flute at East Carolina University, where she is the flutist of the Coastal Winds Quintet.
  Dr. Gustafson is also Director of the ECU Global Affairs Faculty-led Taiwan Chamber Music Summer Study Abroad, a unique international program, taking ECU music students to the University of Taipei to perform chamber music together with their counterparts from the University of Taipei during Summer Session I. Cultural exploration is offered through Chinese language and Culture class and cultural excursions.