Artistic Résumé
Savanna Jolie Nygard
Education
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Master of Music, Flute Performance, 2026
University of California Irvine, Bachelor of Music, Flute Performance, cum laude, 2024
Private Instructors
Mark Teplitsky, summer of 2026
Thomas Robertello, 2026
Jasmine Choi, 2025
Carmen Maret, 2024
Patricia Cloud, 2020–2024
Alexa Still, summer of 2020
Andrei Gorchov, 2015–2020
Summer Festivals
Eastern Festival of Music, 2026
Brevard Flute Seminar, 2025
Kent Blossom Music Festival with The Cleveland Orchestra, 2024, 2025
Employment
Indiana University Jacobs Flute Academy Pre-college Instructor, 2025–2026
Indiana University Conductor's Orchestra Substitute Member, 2025–2026
Ensemble Experience
Eastern Festival Orchestra, 2nd flute, 2026
Eastern & Guilford Student Orchestras, all positions, 2026
Indiana University Symphony Orchestra, piccolo, 2026
Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra, principal, 2nd flute, piccolo, 2025–2026
Indiana University Conductor’s Orchestra, principal, 2nd flute, alto flute, 2025–2026
Indiana University Concert Orchestra, 2nd flute, alto flute, 2024
University of California Irvine Opera Orchestra, principal, 2022–2024
University of California Irvine Symphony Orchestra, principal, 2020–2024
Honors & Awards
Phi Beta Kappa, Mu Chapter, 2024
University of California Irvine Concerto Competition Winner, 2023
University of California Irvine Honors Concert Selected Performer, 2022, 2023, 2024
Alice Lowell Memorial Scholarship Award, 2020–2021
Eric Sorenson Memorial Scholarship, 2020
John Philip Sousa Award for Performing Arts Excellence, 2020
Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra Hugo Rinaldi Fellowship Award, 2019
College of Marin Symphony Orchestra: Youth Concerto Competition Winner, 2019
Master Class Performances
Amy Porter, Brevard Flute Seminar, June 2025
Brandon Patrick George, Kent Blossom Summer Music Festival, July 2024
Patricia Cloud, UCI chamber master class, February 2023
Katrina Walter, online live-streamed event, May 2020
Erin Bouriakov, FluteWorld San Francisco, September 2019
Other Experience
Performances
Brevard Flute Choir, 2025
Kent Blossom Summer Music Festival, five chamber performances and
side-by-side with The Cleveland Orchestra, 2024, 2025
Collaborative Performer in M.F.A. Voice (Soprano) Recital, 2024
Senior Flute Recital, 2024
Claire Trevor School of the Arts Annual Scholarship Celebration Selected
Performer, 2023
UCI Chamber Concert Selected Performer, 2021–2024
Junior Flute Recital, 2023
Collaborative Performer in Senior Voice (Soprano) Recital, 2023
Collaborative Performer in Senior Voice (Tenor) Recital, 2023
Collaborative Performer in M.F.A. Piano Recital, 2022
Early Music Education
Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra
Student Conductor for the Terra Linda High School Spring Concert
Other Experience
Mentor to high school musicians for the UC Irvine and Santa Ana High School
Symphony Orchestra Combined Concert on April 12, 2022.
Student Performing Artist (flute & piccolo) on the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra
European Concert Tour of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna: Performed concerts at idyllic venues under the baton of music director Ann Krinitsky. It was the organization’s first tour in more than 20 years and benefitted various charities.
Repertoire
Solo
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Flute Concerto in D minor, H.484.1
Johann Sebastian Bach: Flute Sonata No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1030; Flute Sonata No. 2
in E-flat Major, BWV 1031; Flute Sonata No. 6 in E Major, BWV 1035
François Borne: Fantaisie brillante sur ‘Carmen’
Eugène Bozza: Image pour Flûte Seule, op. 38
Chen Yi: Memory; Fisherman’s Song
Ian Clarke: Orange Dawn
Claude Debussy: Syrinx, L. 129
Albert Franz Doppler: L’oiseau des bois
Henri Dutilleux: Sonatine for Flute and Piano
Reena Esmail: Zinfandel
Pierre-Octave Ferroud: Trois Pièces pour Flûte Seule
Philippe Gaubert: Nocturne et Allegro Scherzando
Benjamin Godard: Suite de trois morceaux, op. 116
Gabriel Grovlez: Romance et Scherzo
Adolphus Hailstork: Yuhwa
Amanda Harberg: Hall of Ghosts for Solo Piccolo
Jacques Ibert: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
André Jolivet: Chant de Linos
Lowell Liebermann: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, op. 39; Soliloquy for Flute
Solo, op. 44
Marin Marais: Les Folies d’Espagne for Solo Flute
Frank Martin: Ballade
Jules Massenet: Méditation from Thaïs
Olivier Messiaen: Le Merle noir
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G Major, K. 313; Flute Concerto
No. 2 in D Major, K. 314
Carl Nielsen: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, FS 119
Francis Poulenc: Sonate pour flûte et piano, FP 164
Sergei Prokofiev: The Flute Sonata in D, Op. 94
Carl Reinecke: Flute Sonata “Undine” in E Minor, op. 167
Pierre Sancan: Sonatine for Flute and Piano
Franz Schubert: Introduction and Variations, D. 802 (op. 160)
Erwin Schulhoff: Sonata for Flute and Piano, WV 86
Antonio Vivaldi: Flute Concerto No. 3 “Il Gardellino” in D Major, RV 428; Concerto in
C Major, RV 443
Chamber
Ludwig van Beethoven: Serenade for Flute, Violin, and Viola, op. 25
Ian Clarke: Maya for Two Flutes and Piano
John Corigliano: Three Irish Folksong Settings for Voice and Flute
Claude Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
Léo Delibes: Le Rossignol for Voice, Flute, and Piano
Reena Esmail: Nadiya for Flute and Viola
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Trio in D Minor, op. 120
Charles Ives: Old Home Day; He is There from 114 Songs
Leoš Janáček: Mládí
William Mathias: Zodiac Trio for Flute, Viola, and Harp, op. 70
Max Reger: Serenade for Flute, Violin, and Viola in D Major, op. 77a
Georg Philipp Telemann: Duet for Two Flutes, TWV 40:107
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6, W392; Quinteto (em forma de chôros)
Carl Maria von Weber: Trio for Piano, Flute, and Cello in G Minor, op. 63