Hailed as “exquisite” by the WASBE Journal, Canadian flutist Phoebe Robertson is Assistant Professor of Music at Arkansas Tech University. She has performed as soloist with ensembles including the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, and Symphony New Brunswick. Her performances as an orchestral flutist have brought her to halls throughout Europe and North America, including a broadcasted performance with the Orchestra of the Americas at the 2018 Edinburgh International Festival. She has also appeared with APEX Ensemble, the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, European Union Youth Orchestra, and National Youth Orchestra of Canada. As a principal flutist for the 2017 “Edges of Canada” tour with NYO Canada, she starred in a documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

Recipient of the Grand Prize of the National Arts Centre Orchestra Bursary Competition, she has since performed in competitions and festivals across North America and Europe, earning the Harry G. Archer Award, the title of Major Artist of the Pittsburgh Concert Society, third place in the Flute Society of Washington Young Artist Competition, and first place in the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Soloist Competition and the Silberman Chamber Music Competition. In 2023, her recording of David Maslanka’s Song Book for Flute and Wind Ensemble with Daniel A. Belongia and the Arkansas Tech University Symphonic Wind Ensemble was released on the Tonsehen label.

Current projects include a consortium commission of a new work for flute and marimba from Colombian composer Carolina Calvache (with Cory Fica, percussion), set to be recorded in December 2025. An album of chamber music with Nicolas del Grazia (clarinet) and Tim Smith (piano) is also in post-production. In February 2026, she will perform Mnicakmun (Sounds of Water) by Will Linthicum-Blackhorse with the ATU Symphonic Wind Ensemble at CBDNA-Southwest at the University of North Texas. In March 2027, she will undertake a tour presented by Debut Atlantic with Pierre-André Doucet (piano).

She studied with Linda Chesis and Robert Langevin during her doctoral studies at the Manhattan School of Music. She holds a Master of Music degree from Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied with Lorna McGhee, and a Bachelor of Music degree from her studies with Camille Churchfield at the University of Ottawa. During summer holidays, she has studied under Emily Beynon at the Netherlands Flute Academy, Leone Buyse at the Orchestra of the Americas, and Julien Beaudiment at the Orford Academy, among others. She has also been a fellow at the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Her studies and professional activities have been generously supported by such organizations as the Sylva Gelber Music Foundation and the O’Brien Foundation.