CARLA AULD, flute

About

Carla Auld continues to distinguish herself as both a performer and one of the foremost proponents of the flute in the world today. A popular concert artist and teacher, she has also been hailed for her work as a founder and artistic director of organizations specifically related to music and arts administration.

Born in New York City and later raised in New Jersey, Ms. Auld attended Temple University on music scholarships and received her B.A. in Journalism. She studied flute with Julius Baker, Robert Dick, Michael Parloff, Bart Feller, Bernard Goldberg and Gerardo Levy whom she credits with having helped her form the artistic perspective apparent in her approach to repertoire, performance, and interpretation.

As a "forever student", as she calls herself, many instrumentalists, vocalists, dancers and visual artists have been influential to Carla throughout her musical providing her accolades from critics and audiences alike.

Jerry Dubins of Fanfare Magazine describes Ms. Auld as “beguiling” with a “smooth balanced tone throughout the registers of her instrument,” as well as “marvelous breath control, and [a] technical command distinguishing all of her performances,” while Roger Hits of Highlight Hollywood has proclaimed her “absurdly-talented, creating her own atmosphere with her ethereal flute work.”

Auld’s solo performances exist along a broad spectrum of both venues and collaborators, and include engagements with Sante Fe’s Flute Immersion, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico, Verdi School of Music (Italy) Saint Paul Festival of the Arts, the Festival of Strings in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey and many more.

Well-known for her interest in new music and promoting the works of living composers, she has personally commissioned works from James Cohn, Allen Cohn while also having had works written especially for her, including "Voyage to a New Land” for flute and orchestra by Steve Giammarino, recorded on the MSR label www.msrcd.com.

As Founder and Artistic Director of From Bach to Broadway Ensembles- a classical music services company, Auld was responsible for providing audiences the opportunity to engage professional, musical artists for events; combining specific instrumentalists to accommodate the need for solo and chamber ensembles for all genres of music.

Carla is the founder and flautist for the Auld Flute & Piano Ensemble with pianist Eric Malson and the London Trio with cellist, Lanny Paykin and violinist, Gabriel Schaff.

Constantly in demand for her work as an advisor and adjudicator, Auld has served on the boards of both the New York Flute Club, and the New Jersey Flute Society, and as an international judge for the Magalif Flute Competition.

Born in New York and raised in New Jersey, Ms. Auld attended Temple University, having studied with Julius Baker, whom she credits with having helped her form the artistic perspective readily apparent in her approach to repertoire, performance, and interpretation, which continues to bring her accolades from critics and audiences alike.

She has also coached with such distinguished artists as Michael Parloff, Robert Dick, Bernard Goldberg and Gerardo Levy.

Auld’s solo performances exist along a broad spectrum of both venues and collaborators, and include engagements with Sante Fe’s Flute Immersion, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico, the Verdi School of Music, Italy, the Saint Paul Festival of the Arts, and the Festival of Strings in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey.

Well-known for her interest in new music as well as the promotion of works by living composers, she has personally commissioned works from James Cohn and Allen Cohn, while also having had works written especially for her, including “Voyage to a New Land” for flute and orchestra by Steve Giammarino, recorded on the MSR label.

As Founder and Artistic Director of From Bach to Broadway, a classical music services company, Auld was responsible for giving audiences the opportunity to engage professional artists on demand for events, combining specific instrumentalists to accommodate the need for solo and chamber ensembles of both new and traditional works to audiences. She is also founder of two other chamber groups, the Auld Flute and Piano Ensemble and the London Trio with cellist Lanny Paykin and violinist Gabriel Schaff.

Carla Auld - Intrevista - May 2023

I always had an artist’s soul. I won a poetry contest when I was about eight years old at my local library. My mother came from a long line of musicians, writers, and poets from the Dominican Republic. My God mother was a published author and I still cherish the poetry of my grandfather who I never knew. My grandmother played the mandolin and our relatives were either cellists, pianists, violinists and there was even a flutist among them named, Zocorro. It was my mother’s classical guitar playing I heard growing up. She was no Segovia - even though she had glowed about seeing him in concert and receiving his signature, but she legitimately played and studied and could entertain in her humble fashion. I loved seeing her with her guitar...

Carla Auld: flautista cautivadora e impresionante

Nueva York

Carla Auld es solista de flauta, música de cámara y artista discográfica, de origen hispano radicada en nuestra área. Procedente de una familia de músicos por parte de su madre de origen dominicano, a esta Flautista profesional los asistentes del público han descrito sus actuaciones como “totalmente cautivadoras e impresionantes”.

Su forma de tocar es seductora con un tono suave y equilibrado. Carla es fundadora de The London Trio, Women’s Woodwind Quintet y AULD Flute and Piano Duo. Durante más de 15 años fue directora artística y solista de la compañía de servicios musicales From Bach to Broadway.