Nave Graham
Assistant Professor of Music - Flute
SFA 116
Flutist, Nave Graham, leads a versatile career as a performer and educator. Dr. Graham is Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Central Arkansas. She also serves on the faculty of the Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer Arts Camp. She previously held positions at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), Xavier University, and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department. Dr. Graham has been awarded prizes in various solo flute competitions including the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia, the Flute Society of Kentucky, the Central Ohio Flute Association, the South Carolina Flute Society Young Artist Competitions, as well as the Byron Hester Solo Flute Competition hosted by the Houston Flute Club, the National Flute Association Masterclass Competition, and the Donald Peck International Flute Competition. As an advocate of contemporary music, she has received fellowships with various festivals dedicated to new music including the Toronto Creative Music Lab, New Music on the Point, and the Bang on A Can Summer Music Festival hosted by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Dr. Graham is also a founding member of contemporary chamber music sextet, All of the Above. The ensemble has held residencies at Xavier University as well as the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Cortona, Italy. All of the Above made their Carnegie Hall debut in 2017 and returned in 2018. The ensemble released their first album, Double Portrait, on Ablaze Records in the summer of 2020. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with a cognate in Ethnomusicology. Her research includes Music Performance Anxiety and mental health in the modern music school as it relates to Eastern philosophy and psychology. She is also a certified Mindfulness instructor and specializes in integrating concepts of meditation, acceptance, and self-compassion in music curriculum. In addition, Dr. Graham is the co-author of repertory database, Flute Music by Black Composers—an ongoing effort to research and promote the works of underrepresented composers.