michelle cheramy brass, woodwind, BANDS, and strings
Dr. Michelle Cheramy has been a full-time member of the faculty at Memorial University for more than twenty years, one of only a handful of flutists in Canada to hold such a position. Over the course of her career she has taught students ranging in ability from beginner through professional, and has enjoyed mentoring aspiring performers, music educators, composers, and students bound for a host of other professions.
Michelle’s own musical development was nurtured by the music festival in her hometown, and she has been delighted to contribute to the growth of aspiring young musicians as an invited clinician at flute fairs and competitive music festivals in Canada and the US including the Ottawa Kiwanis Music Festival, the Halifax (now Nova Scotia) Kiwanis Music Festival, and the Syrinx flute festival in Winnipeg. She has also presented pedagogy-related workshops at the annual convention of the National Flute Association and is author of one chapter of the NFA’s second pedagogy anthology.
As a performer, Michelle has appeared in recital across Canada and the US, and as soloist with orchestras in Canada, the United States and Russia; she has also been featured in numerous radio broadcasts nationally on the CBC (Symphony Hall, In Performance, Two New Hours, The Signal). She is the flutist of the Trinitas Chamber Ensemble with whom she has performed in Washington, D.C., Ontario, Alberta, B.C., Newfoundland, and throughout the U.S. Midwest.
Michelle is a past winner of the National Flute Association’s research competition, the Canadian Concerto Competition, and was a prize winner in the Montreal Symphony’s Standard Life competition. She holds degrees from the University of British Columbia (B.Mus.), Indiana University (M.M.) and Rice University (D.M.A.).