Her other teachers include Jenny Kreuger, Tadeu Coelho, Peter Ader and Claudia Anderson. Kassey has also performed in numerous masterclasses for the world’s most prominent solo and orchestral flutists most recently including Jeanne Baxtresser, Marianne Gedigian, and Tim Day. Plaha has been a winner in several competitions including the Leni Febland Competition, Santa Barbara Music Club Competition, UCSB Concerto Competition, the prestigious National Flute Association Masterclass Performers Competition, as well a semi-finalist in the Frank Bowen Competition. Her many appearances in Santa Barbara include Ensemble for Contemporary Music, Mirage Flute Trio, Guest Artist in Andrea Ogundele’s Artist Recital “Authenticity and Hover”, Soloist for “Mobiles 2” by Henry Brant in UCSB New Music Festival 2002, Guest Artist with Mirage Flute Trio in 2003 Primavera Festival, Guest Artist for Music Academy of the West Virtual Masterclass 2003, Soloist with UCSB Symphony Orchestra as a Winner of the Concerto Competition 2002. In June 2003, Kassey graduated from University of California at Santa Barbara with a Master of Music, where she was the Flute Studio Teaching Assistant and studied with Jill Felber, internationally acclaimed soloist and chamber musician of ZAWA.
Her many guest appearances include the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra as a substitute, El Paso Symphony Orchestra as a substitute, UNM Symphony Orchestra, New Music New Mexico, Dominant Five Woodwind Quintet, UNM Flute Quintet, and UNM Woodwind Quintet. While at the University of New Mexico, Kassey was a member of the nationally acclaimed UNM Wind Symphony and part of the recording of “Fandango” with international soloists Philip Smith and Joe Alessi of the New York Philharmonic.
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In 2001, she graduated from the University of New Mexico in Flute Performance on full scholarship where she studied with Valerie Potter, principal of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. By the age of 13, she was awarded a full college scholarship to New Mexico State University as a promising young talent.
Kassey Plaha started her musical studies at the age of 11 in New Mexico.
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