Katelyn Hernandez
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Katelyn Hernandez is a flutist from Phoenix, Arizona. She completed her Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance from Arizona State University While living in Arizona, Katelyn was principal flute of the ASU Symphony Orchestra and the ASU Wind Ensemble. She also performed with the ASU Chamber Winds, a graduate double woodwind quintet during her undergrad, and the Windigo Woodwind Quintet. She also wrote an honors thesis entitled The Rise of the 20th Century Female Orchestral Flutist.

She relocated to Madison, Wisconsin in 2020 where she completed her Master of Music in Flute Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and served as principal flute of the UW Wind Ensemble. Katelyn also performed with the Four Seasons Theatre and the La Lirica Musica Opera in productions of The Music Man, La Traviata, and La Cenerentola. Her flute and clarinet duo, Duo Cognada, performed a variety of repertoire at UW Madison and in the Madison community.

She has been a fellowship recipient of the Imani Chamber Winds Festival, a Young Artist at the Decoda Chamber Music Festival, and a Performer at both the Maine Chamber Music Seminar and the Iowa Flute Intensive. Katelyn is a prize winner of the Arizona Flute Society Collegiate Competition and a Finalist for the ASU Concerto Competition.

Katelyn is also an accomplished teacher. She has held a private flute studio in both Arizona and Wisconsin, where her students have been recognized in regional and state events. She has coached flutists of the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra in addition to numerous middle and high schools in Wisconsin. She has been an adjudicator and clinician for the Wisconsin Flute Festival. Katelyn was also a Music Theory Teaching Assistant at UW Madison for two years. She now resides in North Austin with her husband, an oboist, and they both teach across the Austin area and have students in and out of the Austin area reaching Georgetown, Pflugerville, and Buda outside the city.
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She has performed for flutists including Carol Wincenc, Jim Walker, Marianne Gedigian, Brandon Patrick George, and Nicole Esposito. Her primary teachers include Elizabeth Buck and Conor Nelson.