About

Originally from Russell, Manitoba, Charmaine is a classically trained flutist based in Winnipeg. She is an active freelance musician and artistic director of the Canadian Bacon Wind Quintet and the Wind Chamber Flute Orchestra. Charmaine enjoys performing as a guest musician with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, and Royal Canadian Air Force Band.

Charmaine maintains an active flute studio in the Charleswood neighbourhood. She is a guest clinician at the University of Manitoba, Canadian Mennonite University, Brandon University and for the Manitoba Honour Bands. Charmaine has adjudicated for music festivals including the Syrinx Flute Festival and Brandon Festival of the Arts, and is a flute instructor at the International Music Camp. Charmaine’s students enjoy success in local festivals, honour bands, and youth orchestras, and many continue onto musical studies at the University of Manitoba and Brandon University.

Charmaine attended the University of Manitoba, University of Toronto, and The Glenn Gould School of Music. Her primary instructors include Jan Kocman and Laurel Ridd, she has also studied with Joanne Kosheluk, Martha Durkin, Dr. Kathleen Rudolph, and Leslie Newman.

Charmaine enjoys playing the smallest (piccolo) to some of the largest instruments (contrabass) of the flute families – she is the owner of Karel the Contrabass flute, one of only a handful of contrabasses in Canada. Charmaine is currently organist at McClure United Church and pianist for Margaret’s Choir and the Joie de Vivre Choir. She serves as a member of the board for the Music Professionals of Manitoba (Local 190), and is president of the RCCO Winnipeg Centre.