Canadian flutist Phoebe Robertson has recently performed in such venues as Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw and Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, earning commendations for her solo, chamber, and orchestral playing. Recipient of the Grand Prize of the National Arts Centre Orchestra Bursary Competition in 2015, 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, and top prizes in the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Soloist Competition and the Silberman Chamber Music Competition. She was recently a finalist in the 2022 Flute Society of Washington Young Artist Competition. Her playing has been featured on BBC Radio 3 and in records on the Linn and NYOC labels.

Dr. Robertson appeared as soloist with Symphony New Brunswick for three performances in May 2021, performing Kelsey Jones’s Suite for Flute and Strings in celebration of the orchestra’s founder. Her previous appearances as soloist include performances with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic. In November 2022, she recorded David Maslanka’s Song Book for Flute and Wind Ensemble with the acclaimed ATU Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Dr. Daniel Belongia. An avid proponent of new music, she performed a recital of new works for solo flute written for her by the members of the Tesselat International Composers’ Collective in December 2019, and recorded two premieres as a fellow of the Bowdoin International Music Festival during the summer of 2020. In-demand as a chamber musician, she frequently appears as part of the Barachois Summer Music Festival/Été musical de Barachois.

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.

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.