KRISTEN HOLRITZ has been named principal flute at Tennessee’s Chattanooga Symphony & Opera. She succeeds JANET HALE, who is retiring after 40 years with the orchestra. Holritz made her solo debut with the United States Air Force Band in 2005 as winner of the Colonel George S. Howard Young Artist Competition. In 2013 she was a competition winner with the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra, took first prize in the Atlanta Flute Club Young Artist Competition, and was awarded third prize in the MidSouth Flute Festival Young Artist Competition. Holritz performs extensively with her husband, violinist Josh Holritz, in the duo Schaafritz. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a master’s degree from The Juilliard School, where she studied with New York Philharmonic Principal Flute Robert Langevin. Holritz teaches privately and is an adjunct professor of flute at Truett-McConnell College in Cleveland, Ga.
Posted September 6, 2013
