Lauren Eselson

I've been teaching successfully for many years, with many students as provincial and national festival awards winners, and Gold medalists with RCM. Several students have gone on to major music schools, and are now working with professionally themselves. I bring decades of experience plus my own study with some of the best flute pedagogues around. I approach each student as an individual and work to meet them where they are and help them to reach their goals . Lauren Eselson is an Instructor of Flute at Mount Royal University Conservatory. She is a Woodwind-Brass examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music, and is currently the Woodwind Discipline Specialist for the RCM. She is in demand as an adjudicator across Canada. Lauren was a regular extra musician in the flute section of the Calgary Philharmonic from 1980-2016. During the seasons of 2003-2006 she was Acting Assistant Principal Flute with the orchestra. Ms. Eselson has also performed with the National Ballet Orchestra, Royal Winnipeg Ballet Orchestra, Calgary Bach Society, Kensington Sinfonia, Red Deer Symphony, Chicago Civic Orchestra, the American Wind Symphony, and in pit orchestras for Theater Calgary and Broadway touring productions. She has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Calgary Philharmonic, Calgary Bach Society, Kensington Sinfonia and the Calgary Chamber Ensemble, and has been recorded in recital by CBC Radio. At Mount Royal University Conservatory, Ms. Eselson recently retired as the Woodwind coordinator for the well-known Academy program for gifted young musicians. She is a Woodwind-Brass examiner for the Royal Conservatory of Music, and is currently the Woodwind Discipline Specialist for the RCM. She is in demand as an adjudicator across Canada. Ms. Eselson holds a Bachelor of Music from the Cleveland Institute, and a Master of Music from Northwestern University. Her principal teachers were Walfrid Kujala , Maurice Sharp , Jim Walker, Claude Monteux and Geoffrey Gilbert.