Christine Gangelhoff
Christine Gangelhoff is a flutist, scholar, and educator recognized for her work in Caribbean classical music. Her chamber ensemble C Force features the distinctive combination of flute, euphonium, and piano and seeks to promote music by Bahamian and Caribbean composers.
C Force’s Recomposing America residency will explore classical music of the Caribbean and its connections to the broader Americas through performance, education, and community collaboration in Minnesota. The project invites audiences to reconsider conventional definitions of classical music and to recognize the Caribbean as part of a broader and more diverse classical tradition. Selected repertoire will represent multiple Caribbean islands and musical traditions, including works that engage with folk, popular, and traditional musical influences within classical forms.
About Christine Gangelhoff
Christine Gangelhoff is a flutist, scholar, and educator recognized for her work in Caribbean classical music. A Professor of Music at the University of The Bahamas, she has spent nearly two decades advancing Caribbean repertoire through research, performance, recordings, publications, symposia, curriculum development, and collaboration with composers. She has published extensively on Caribbean composers and repertoire, including Art Music by Caribbean Composers and the book Tour de Force: A Musical Journey of the Caribbean.
She is co-founder of the chamber ensemble C Force, and her work has brought Caribbean repertoire to the National Flute Association Convention, the American Composers Orchestra’s SONiC Festival, and the College Music Society National Conference. Gangelhoff has also helped organize several international symposia devoted to Caribbean concert music. She serves as Artistic Director of the Nassau Music Society and is a Powell Flutes Artist.
About C Force
C Force is a chamber ensemble based at the University of The Bahamas, featuring the distinctive combination of flute, euphonium, and piano. The ensemble has performed throughout The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the United States, and Canada, with a particular emphasis on music by Bahamian and Caribbean composers. C Force has released three recordings, including Deep Blue, devoted to works by composers of The Bahamas, and the double CD Tour de Force, which spans more than two centuries of concert music from seven Caribbean countries and territories. The ensemble has presented performances and workshops throughout the islands of The Bahamas and regularly performs alongside current and former University of The Bahamas music students. Deep Blue was described by noted scholar Dominique-René de Lerma as an important document in the evolution of music in The Bahamas.
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