Esther Fredrickson

flute/piccolo

Esther Fredrickson is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and plays flute and piccolo with orchestras throughout the Southwest. She has won positions with the Austin Symphony Orchestra in 2019, the New Mexico Philharmonic in 2023, and was previously a member of the El Paso Symphony Orchestra from 2014-2023. She holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Oregon.

Her work in chamber music includes appearances with Chatter ABQ, and with Eighth Blackbird in the live-version premiere of Steve Reich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Double Sextet. In 2011, Esther was selected as a winner of the Frances Walton Competition in Seattle, with an adventurous program of Baroque and contemporary unaccompanied flute music. Esther maintains a small private studio, and in 2021 served as the interim professor of flute at New Mexico State University.

Aside from music, Esther’s interests include adobe architecture, her two dogs, and growing fruit. In 2020, Esther started a small millwork and adobe construction company, Albuquerque Joinery, with her partner Kenny. They have three employees and design and build about one home per year, using traditional adobe construction techniques.