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Karen Large is a native Floridian from Port St. Lucie. Throughout her formative years, music was a constant in her life - beginning with piano at age 5 and continuing with the saxophone and oboe before settling on the flute at age 12. She was inspired to study music further through her involvement in the Florida All-State band and orchestra, the Tri-State festival in Tallahassee, the Treasure Coast Youth Orchestra, and the Four-County Honors Band Festival.
Her college studies began at Florida State University where she was a student of Eva Amsler, Stephanie Jutt, and Joshua Carter (under Charles DeLaney), a proud member of the World-Renowned Marching Chiefs, principal flutist in the undergraduate ensembles, and the founding president of FSU's biological science fraternity, Beta Beta Beta. She graduated with both a Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Science.
The following year, she entered the Master of Music degree program at FSU. During this time she was a graduate teaching assistant in the flute studio where she taught applied flute lessons, baroque flute, woodwind methods, and flute choir. She held principal flute and piccolo positions in the symphony and wind ensemble as well as gained a stronger interest in and understanding of the Baroque Flute or One-Keyed Flute.
After teaching biology for a year at Centennial High School in her hometown, she returned to FSU and entered the Doctor of Music degree program and graduated in 2010. She was a graduate teaching assistant in the flute studio and in addition to her required coursework, earned certificates in Music Theory Pedagogy as well as College Teaching. It was during this time that she took courses with music researchers and educators Dr. Clifford Madsen and Dr. John Geringer on experimental research in music. Inspired by these classes, and under the supervision of Dr. Eric Ohlsson, she completed her doctoral treatise, Affective Responses to Music: a flutist's perspective in which she conducted experiments on what elements generate the perception of emotion in music.
Currently, Dr. Large serves as an adjunct music faculty member at the University of Central Florida and teaches courses in Music Theory, Aural Skills, World Music, and Music Literature. She also previously served on the faculties at the Unviersity of Tampa and the Indian River State College. Additionally, she frequently substitutes in the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra as a flutist and piccoloist and is a member of the Florida Flute Orchestra.
Dr. Large has been in masterclasses and special lessons with Jeffrey Khaner, Robert Langevin, Amy Porter, Michel Debost, Paul Edmund Davies, Christina Jennings, Keith Underwood, Judith Mendenhall, Ervin Monroe, Elizabeth Buck, Chris Krueger, and Stephen Preston among others.
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