Rate My Professor Paula Gudmundson

Her research specializations include collaboration, community engagement, and amplifying absent or underrepresented narratives in the arts, with particular focus on women composers, Black composers, and Latin American music. An active performer, Paula Gudmundson has appeared at regional and national conferences of the College Music Society, National Flute Association conventions, as a Minnesota Public Radio Class Notes Artist, at the International Flute Festival of Costa Rica, and La Côte Flûte Festival. She has released key recordings: La Flauta of Buenos Aires (2014), Breaking Waves (2019), and Melodies of the Forest (2022), and has been featured on Minnesota Public Radio’s Regional Spotlight. Among her major honors is the 2022-2023 McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians, a $25,000 award supported by the McKnight Foundation and administered by the MacPhail Center for Music. She is a member of the College Music Society, American Composers Forum, Upper Midwest Flute Association, and National Flute Association, contributing through performances, commissions, and educational initiatives to her impact in the field.