Contact Information: Office: Jindra 107 Office Phone: 402-770-3187 Email: ASheedy-Gardner@peru.edu   Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday

12 Spring Course Offerings:

Musc- Applied Music (120-000B, 220-000B,320-000B,340-000B,420-000B,440-000B) - Woodwinds

 

Bio:

Anne Sheedy Gardner is a Touring Artist listed with both the Nebraska Arts Council and Mid-America Artists Alliance.

Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Anne’s very first musical mentors were Paul Desmond and Norman Bates, both members of her Dad’s band before they joined Dave Brubeck’s.  Both encouraged Anne in her studies and performances for many years, often playing duets and trios with her at her home.  Anne began her conservatory training in Rome, Italy with Severino Gazzelloni and Franco Ferrara at Il Conservatorio di Musica di Santa Cecilia when she moved there as a teenager with her family. Upon graduation with honors, she continued her formal training with flutists Julius Baker, Samuel Baron and Harold Bennett in New York City and with Thomas Nyfenger and Keith Underwood at Yale as the recipient of several grants and scholarships.  Anne first performed at Carnegie Hall at the age of 19 and continued to appear there, at Lincoln Center, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC for over 20 years as a soloist and principal flutist of resident chamber groups and orchestras.  Her mentor during those years was conductor and Juilliard faculty member, violinist, Oscar Shumsky, with whom she performed as principal flutist of two of his chamber groups and as a soloist many times.  Anne also performed on Broadway and as a studio musician in NYC for many years. She has toured throughout the US, Canada, Japan and Europe and was presented in live and televised recitals in New York City and Los Angeles through the auspices of the Concert Artists Guild. She has performed with YoYo Ma, Ariel Bybee, Jon Bon Jovi, Alan Menken, George Dyer, Odetta and many other wonderful artists over the years.   For two years she toured as guest soloist and composer with noted mythologist, Joseph Campbell, and his wife, Martha Graham dancer Jean Erdman’s Theater of the Open Eye.  In Nebraska, she has performed with the Lincoln Symphony, plays with the Lincoln Community Concert Band and is a founding member of the Great Plains Chamber Winds. 

 

Her other faculty positions have included adjunct professor at NYU’s “University Without Walls” where she taught in their jazz division, helping professional doublers (mostly saxophonists) to have a beautiful sound on the flute; artist-in-residence at Goddard College in Vermont and guest Teaching Artist at the NYSCA conference at Sarah Lawrence College.  As a Teaching Artist at UNL she has taught arts centered workshops in rural Nebraska.  She has also taught all day flute clinics in Nebraska and New York.  Anne remains an adjudicator for LPS in Nebraska.  Ms. Sheedy Gardner loves teaching and coaching her students to achieve all their goals and dreams in music and shares with them all the valuable and unwritten lessons and tips she was taught and shown by her own teachers over the years. Anne lives in Lincoln with her husband, Marty Gardner. She is also a published author and professional calligrapher.

"Hauntingly beautiful sound... brilliant and thoughtful musical conversation" – San Francisco Examiner

"Absolutely flawless performance by flutist Anne Sheedy. She deserved the standing ovation and loud bravos." – New York Times