Seetha Shivaswamy
Academy & Workshop Faculty
Seetha Shivaswamy has been invited to perform in over 70 cities throughout Europe, Asia, and North America as a flute soloist and chamber musician. Highlights include a US and India tour with the Global Rhythms World Music Ensemble, concerts with the Orquesta Sinfonica in Monterrey, Mexico, and a solo flute recital at the Hong Kong City Centre. She has recorded and toured with Grammy/Oscar-winning film composer A.R. Rahman, including a flute solo on his anthem for the United Nations. Her playing can also be heard on film soundtracks such as the UK feature ‘Bombil and Beatrice’, released at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007, and ‘Bernie’ starring Jack Black and Shirley MacClaine, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2011. Seetha is a member of the highly-acclaimed woodwind quintet, Waterloo Sound Conspiracy, as well as the experimental improvisation group Color of Sound.
Seetha holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor’s Degree from Ball State University, where she studied classical flute performance with Karl Kraber and Julia Larson Mattern. Seetha has also studied Yoga, Alexander Technique, Indonesian Gamelan, Indian Bansuri flute, and various other modalities related to performance and education. She has had the honor of being selected to perform for Emmanuel Pahud of the Berlin Philharmonic and Ransom Wilson of Yale University, and has studied contemporary flute technique and improvisation with the Dutch Flutist Wil Offermans. Seetha is a faculty artist with the Austin Chamber Music Festival and regularly presents flute workshops for several schools in the Austin/Eanes Independent School District.
