Posts By: Molly Barth

In reflecting on the past year, during a pandemic, I kept VERY busy:   In May 2020 I was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Flute. I produced a CD titled “Vanderbilt Virtuosi”, released on Blue Griffin Recording, featuring Blair faculty performers and works of Blair faculty and alumni. I recorded and produced… Read more »

    Sunday, March 21, 2021 3-7pm ET / 8p-12m CET Wherein Bang on a Can brings you a bunch of über-cool artists and pieces we’ve programmed over the past year for further consumption. In previous times we’d have packed up and hauled it all to Deutschland, but now we all can enjoy the Festival… Read more »

  https://orcd.co/gmkomy1 Spearheaded by Grammy-winning flutist Molly Barth, the star-studded recording titled ‘Vanderbilt Virtuosi’ showcases the performers and composers of Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music, and includes tour-de-force performance of such staple of flute repertoire as Samuel Zyman’s magnificent Flute Sonata, as well as world-premiere recordings of newly commissioned works by Michael Rose and Sean… Read more »

What is especially exciting about this particular Marathon is that this show is all world premieres and all new commissions. I will premiere “Listening to the Wind” by Kristina Wolfe, at 2:20pm EST. Bang on a Can Marathon Live Online February 21, 2021, 1-5pm EST February Marathon 2021 — Bang on a Can Live Facebook… Read more »

  Ineffable: Molly Barth, flute, and Heather Conner, piano Flutist Molly Barth brings music and poetry to life with stunning videos filmed at some of Nashville’s most iconic locations. The program includes works by Adolphus Hailstork, Andre Myers, Katherine Hoover, Ricardo Zohn Muldoon, and Samuel Zyman. Videographers: Continuous Motion Productions Audio: Jeff Coffin, Paul Eachus,… Read more »

Mark your calendars! I am playing the ORIGINAL 1936 manuscript of Density 21.5 (very different from the piece you all know!) on a beautiful BURKART PLATINUM FLUTE for this FREE online performance/discussion on November 5 at 7:30pm Eastern Time! This original version of the piece has not been performed since Georges Barrère performed it over… Read more »

2020 will go down in the history books as a year like no other! GO VANDERBILT!

What a winter, and now spring is in the earth in Nashville! Tulips and daffodils are in bloom, and the sun feels warm. Returning for a brief 3-month period to the post I held for a decade as the flutist with Eighth Blackbird is a joy. What fun new repertoire for me to perform, and… Read more »

https://www.city.ac.uk/events/2019/november/molly-barth   The award-winning flautist brings a multifaceted programme of contemporary US and Latin American solo works to London, including several works written for and dedicated to her. Programme: Michael Fiday, Jim and John Frederic Rzewski, Mollitude Omar Acosta, Solo de Pajarillo John Liberatore, Gilded Tree John Fonville, Music for Sarah Shulamit Ran, East Wind… Read more »