Chris Potter
Alto and bass flute specialist Dr. Christine Potter has performed in London, Paris, Mexico City, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., and many other U.S. cities.
She is President and Founder of the International Low Flutes Society that she incorporated as a non-profit in 2023, building on previous personally-funded Festivals beginning in 2018. Chris has commissioned and premiered many works for alto and bass including Obstinato and Scherzo by Mike Mower and Low Flutes at High Tides by Matthias Ziegler. Her award-winning Advanced Alto Method, Alto Method and Bass Method, based on principles she learned from Marcel Moyse, are available in 16 countries via Amazon. For several years Chris directed a Low Flutes Choir at the James Galway Festival in Switzerland and she has organized and taught many Low Flutes Retreats in a variety of U.S. locations since 2004.
Chris was the first chair of the National Flute Association’s Low Flutes Committee and provided initial funding for the NFA’s Alto Flute Competition. Alto and bass flute are featured on her CD Flute Menagerie. She has many published books through American and British publishers including her best-selling Vibrato Workbook. Her books for low flutes include Stellar Solos, Three Vocalises, Winter Duets, Four Bach Fugues, Alto Times Two and the Advanced Alto Flute Method, Alto Flute Method and Bass Flute Method.
