Rose Shlyam Grace and Sarah Jane Young

Pianist Rose Shlyam Grace and flutist Sarah Jane Young perform at the Friday Musicale. This program highlights work by women composers, for piano with flute and piccolo flute. Tickets range from $10-$30.

Currently on faculty at the University of North Florida, Dr. Sarah Jane Young has performed with the Tallahassee Symphony since 2005, the Pensacola Symphony since 2007, and the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra since 2017 after having begun her orchestral career with the Wallingford Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut. She is the newly appointed Principal Flutist of the Albany Symphony Orchestra in Georgia. An active freelancer, she has performed with the Jacksonville Symphony, the Savannah Philharmonic, Augusta Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Gulf Coast, and various other orchestras across the Florida/Georgia region.

After receiving her Master’s degree from Florida State University, Sarah Jane was selected as the Professor of Flute at the King Hussein Foundation National Music Conservatory in Amman, Jordan. While there, she served as Principal Flute with the Amman Symphony Orchestra and the Amman Sinfonietta, as well as the National Music Conservatory Woodwind Quintet. She has performed for both Queen Noor (Queen Consort of Jordan) and Princess Muna al-Hussein (Princess consort of Jordan). As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed in Canada, England, Jordan, Costa Rica, Belgium, Italy, Bolivia, and throughout the United States. Performance venues include Sprague Hall, Woolsey Hall, Jerash South Theater in Jordan, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center. She has had the honor to share the stage with such prestigious artists as Gunther Schuller, Christopher O’Riley, J. K. Simmons, and Renée Fleming.

As a chamber musician Sarah Jane currently performs with Bold City Contemporary Ensemble based in Jacksonville, Florida, a featured ensemble on Navona Records and at the TEDx Jacksonville 2018 Conference. She is a founding member of Traverso Colore, a baroque flute ensemble; founding member of the Coreopsis Wind Quintet winner of the Promising Young Artist Competition; founding member of Duo Velocipede, an adventurous flute and saxophone duo specializing in the music of Neil Anderson-Himmelspach; and founding member of award winning new music ensemble What Is Noise.

She has performed as a guest artist at the National Institute of Music in Costa Rica, Harford Community College in Maryland, Furman University, the University of North Carolina at Ashville and Chapel Hill, James Madison University, University of Missouri, Florida State University, Webster University, the Conservatory of Music in Bolivia, University of Florida, and Troy University. She served on faculty at the FSU Summer Band Camp, Montelione Music Camp, and is currently on faculty at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and the UNF Summer Band Camp.

While at Florida State she studied with Eva Amsler and completed her treatise: A Survey of Orchestral Excerpt Books for the Flute. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Massachusetts where she studied with Christopher Krueger.