Marcia's profile
Flutist Marcia Kämper became a permanent member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra after performing with the orchestra during the 2005-2006 Season. Her first month in the orchestra included a European tour under Music Director Yuri Temirkanov. In 2006 Maestra Marin Alsop became Music Director and Marcia was her first hire and first musician to receive tenure.
Ms. Kämper has performed several solo concertos with the BSO since joining, including J.S. Bach's "Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2, 4 and 5" presented all in one night. Baltimore Sun music critic Tim Smith commented “There was a consistent warmth to the playing all evening. Solo highlights include the sweet blending of [concertmistress Madeline] Adkins and flutists Marcia Kämper and Genevieve Briggs in No. 4.” Her performance of Berio’s "Sequenza I" with Mobtown Modern in 2009 earned the reviews from Tim Smith: “...calmly virtuosic account of the spiky 'Sequenza I' for flute,” and, “...delivered with great flair.” The BSO's New Music Festival has featured Ms. Kämper as a chamber soloist in 2017 and 2018 performing piccolo, flute, alto flute, and bass flute.
Before joining the BSO, Ms. Kämper was a flutist and soloist with the Omaha Symphony. She was a featured soloist in live radio broadcasts of Leonard Bernstein’s Halil and J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 4 and 5. She has also performed as a guest flutist with the Detroit Symphony and National Symphony Orchestra. She joined the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as a guest flutist in summer 2017 for their three-week European tour and also toured with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in summer 2018.
An active recitalist with a broad repertoire, Ms. Kämper is a champion of new music. She has several world premieres to her credit and was the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of ANALOG, a non-profit collective of artists and musicians from around the world. She has twice performed in ANALOG’s annual live radio broadcast, the Iron Composer Competition. In March 2016 Ms. Kämper performed flute in the U.S. premieres of Paradies and Balance as well as Harmonien and was the sound projectionist for Nebadon and Havona from Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Klang" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Met Breuer in New York City. This production was listed on vulture.com as one of the ten best classical music performances of 2016.
Baltimore Sun music critic Tim Smith praised Ms. Kämper's flute, viola, and harp trio for their 2013 Music in the Great Hall concert. About Toru Takemitsu's "And then I knew ’twas wind": “The players articulated the atmospheric score with admirable finesse, subtly bringing out the sensual tone coloring.” Smith described the concert as a “quite rewarding, vivid, and supple performance”. "Trio Sirѐnes" is the new trio formed by Ms. Kämper, BSO assistant principal violist Karin Brown, and harpist Jacqueline Pollauf and they are planning a recording project in 2017 featuring works by living composers. Trio Sirènes has performed around the greater Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas, including a recital in November 2016 at UMBC where every piece was written within the last twenty years.
Ms. Kämper is co-Artistic Coordinator of the BSO’s Candlelight Music Series at Second Presbyterian Church, and she frequently performs chamber music on the series as well. She has concertized on nearly every chamber music series and venue in the Baltimore area, including Music in the Great Hall, An Die Musik, Music at Broadmead, The Strathmore Mansion series, Metro Gallery, The Contemporary, and The Windup Space. Marcia Kämper was also part of the BSO musicians' community performances after the 2015 Baltimore riots, including a pop-up woodwind quintet performance of spirituals on North Avenue where Freddie Gray was taken into custody.
Ms. Kämper is also an educator. She has conducted masterclasses and given lessons at the Peabody Conservatory for undergraduate and graduate students. She also gave masterclasses at the University of Oregon, UMBC, University of Nebraska at Omaha, and Baldwin Wallace University. Ms. Kämper also coached several youth orchestras in Baltimore, Omaha, Annapolis, and Bethesda.
Marcia Kämper graduated from the prestigious performing arts high school, Las Vegas Academy, and has two degrees from Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.
Ms. Kämper has performed several solo concertos with the BSO since joining, including J.S. Bach's "Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2, 4 and 5" presented all in one night. Baltimore Sun music critic Tim Smith commented “There was a consistent warmth to the playing all evening. Solo highlights include the sweet blending of [concertmistress Madeline] Adkins and flutists Marcia Kämper and Genevieve Briggs in No. 4.” Her performance of Berio’s "Sequenza I" with Mobtown Modern in 2009 earned the reviews from Tim Smith: “...calmly virtuosic account of the spiky 'Sequenza I' for flute,” and, “...delivered with great flair.” The BSO's New Music Festival has featured Ms. Kämper as a chamber soloist in 2017 and 2018 performing piccolo, flute, alto flute, and bass flute.
Before joining the BSO, Ms. Kämper was a flutist and soloist with the Omaha Symphony. She was a featured soloist in live radio broadcasts of Leonard Bernstein’s Halil and J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 4 and 5. She has also performed as a guest flutist with the Detroit Symphony and National Symphony Orchestra. She joined the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as a guest flutist in summer 2017 for their three-week European tour and also toured with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in summer 2018.
An active recitalist with a broad repertoire, Ms. Kämper is a champion of new music. She has several world premieres to her credit and was the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of ANALOG, a non-profit collective of artists and musicians from around the world. She has twice performed in ANALOG’s annual live radio broadcast, the Iron Composer Competition. In March 2016 Ms. Kämper performed flute in the U.S. premieres of Paradies and Balance as well as Harmonien and was the sound projectionist for Nebadon and Havona from Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Klang" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Met Breuer in New York City. This production was listed on vulture.com as one of the ten best classical music performances of 2016.
Baltimore Sun music critic Tim Smith praised Ms. Kämper's flute, viola, and harp trio for their 2013 Music in the Great Hall concert. About Toru Takemitsu's "And then I knew ’twas wind": “The players articulated the atmospheric score with admirable finesse, subtly bringing out the sensual tone coloring.” Smith described the concert as a “quite rewarding, vivid, and supple performance”. "Trio Sirѐnes" is the new trio formed by Ms. Kämper, BSO assistant principal violist Karin Brown, and harpist Jacqueline Pollauf and they are planning a recording project in 2017 featuring works by living composers. Trio Sirènes has performed around the greater Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas, including a recital in November 2016 at UMBC where every piece was written within the last twenty years.
Ms. Kämper is co-Artistic Coordinator of the BSO’s Candlelight Music Series at Second Presbyterian Church, and she frequently performs chamber music on the series as well. She has concertized on nearly every chamber music series and venue in the Baltimore area, including Music in the Great Hall, An Die Musik, Music at Broadmead, The Strathmore Mansion series, Metro Gallery, The Contemporary, and The Windup Space. Marcia Kämper was also part of the BSO musicians' community performances after the 2015 Baltimore riots, including a pop-up woodwind quintet performance of spirituals on North Avenue where Freddie Gray was taken into custody.
Ms. Kämper is also an educator. She has conducted masterclasses and given lessons at the Peabody Conservatory for undergraduate and graduate students. She also gave masterclasses at the University of Oregon, UMBC, University of Nebraska at Omaha, and Baldwin Wallace University. Ms. Kämper also coached several youth orchestras in Baltimore, Omaha, Annapolis, and Bethesda.
Marcia Kämper graduated from the prestigious performing arts high school, Las Vegas Academy, and has two degrees from Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.
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