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Karen Busler, Flute

Karen Busler, a native Memphian, holds The Marion Dugdale McClure Principal Flute Chair of the Memphis Symphony
Orchestra. She has been a frequent soloist during her 32-year tenure with the MSO as well as performing the major
orchestral repertoire for flute. As part of the Symphony, she also plays Principal Flute for Opera Memphis and the
Memphis Ballet.

Mrs. Busler is a charter member of the IRIS Chamber Orchestra and was a featured soloist last season.
She is also a frequent soloist with the Memphis Chamber Music Society. She is the teaching, coaching,
and performing Flute Mentor for the Hot Springs Music Festival in Hot Springs, Arkansas and was the
featured soloist with the Festival Orchestra in June, 2005.

Mrs. Busler is a repeatedly invited guest performer in the J.S. Bach Commemorative Concerts in
Savannah, GA during the summers.

Her most highly regarded milestones have been her Benefit Concerts for the International Children's
Heart Foundation (ICHF), as producer, director, coordinator, and featured performer. Those efforts
raised many thousands of dollars for the humanitarian work of the ICHF. Mrs. Busler and the ICHF
commissioned a major work by Dr. Marjan Helms that was premiered to glowing commentary. She is an
active recitalist, championing solo flute music and flute chamber music with widely varied instrumentation.

In addition to her playing responsibilities, Mrs. Busler's current efforts have been focused on founding
a new concert series, The Assisi Concerts, at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, of which she is
Executive and Artistic Director.

She toured Alaska in 1999 and 2002 with the Rosetta Trio, of which she is a founding member. She is
a member of the National Flute Association where she has judged competitions and performed.

Recordings include Symphonic Elvis with the MSO, IRIS, A New Orchestra, vol. 1, and Kallen Esperian's
three CD's; American Treasure, An Enchanted Reverie, and Lover Come Back.

Mrs. Busler studied with Paul Eaheart at the University of Memphis where she earned her Bachelor of Music
degree in Performance with honors. While at the U of M she won the Concerto Competition and the coveted
Performer's Certificate. She also studied with the late Murray Panitz, Principal Flutist of the Philadelphia
Orchestra, and has played in Master Classes for Jean-Pierre Rampal and Paula Robison.

Karen Busler plays a 14k white gold Brannen Brothers flute.