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Julia Wolfe: Oxygen (Online Film Premiere)

"Please check out this exciting collaborative video. I worked directly with composer Julia Wolfe on this project, produced by Carnegie Hall

Julia Wolfe’s residency as the 2021–2022 Debs Composer’s Chair kicks off online with the film premiere of Oxygen, a rapid-fire composition for 12 flutes. Written during the pandemic and filmed in October 2021, Oxygen features an all-star cast of flutists coming together to collaborate after more than a year of artistic isolation.

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  • "Aside from the incredibly agile work in the brisk outer movements, the central slow movement revealed a depth of expression rarely suspected in Vivaldi concertos....Ms. Barth at times seemed to dance along with the music, a modern day pied piper of compelling execution."

    Greg Hettmansberger, Dane101 Blog, 2011

  • “One of the best things to happen to the UO — and to Oregon music — this year is the arrival of Molly Barth. One of the world’s greatest flutists…”

    Brett Campbell, The Eugene Weekly, 2009

  • “Like a good jazz player, she improvised according to what she got from the other players….Barth was fabulous, again“

    David Stabler, The Oregonian, 2008

  • “Barth’s sculpted lyricism was intensely moving….“

    Tom Manoff, Register Guard, 2008

  • “Barth’s virtuosic ability created fluttering trills, sudden fortes, and soothing legato lines that were flat out remarkable.”

    James Bash, Northwest Reverb, 2008

  • “Her high spirit was contagious, her legato like liquid and her ornaments glittering….“

    James McQuillen, The Oregonian, 2007

  • “The ferociously talented flutist Molly Alicia Barth gave an electric performance… effortlessly leaping across registers and conveying both a sense of intense dialogue and barely contained anxiety in the many piercingly high passages.”

    James McQuillen, The Oregonian, 2006

  • “…highly polished techniques and evident depth of feeling for a variety of contemporary styles, as well as a sartorial casualness and open manner”  

    Allan Kozinn, New York Times, 1998

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“Molly Barth named Chancellor Faculty Fellow”

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Blair Associate Professor of Flute Molly Barth is one of 13 outstanding faculty members from across the university selected for the 2024 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. The group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise.

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