Bridget Rennie-Salonen

Dr Bridget Rennie-Salonen, flautist, and practitioner and researcher in Performing Arts Health, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Africa Open Institute for Music Research and Innovation, Stellenbosch University. She is chair of the steering committee of the South African Performing Arts Health Association and is a core member of an international research collaboration, the Musicians' Health Literacy Consortium, on musicians’ health education and health literacy. Bridget’s PhD focused on musicians’ occupational health curriculum content, implementation and assessment. She is interested in the field of somatics and the interaction of the psychological, physical and artistic aspects in performing artists, from preventative, therapeutic and performance optimisation perspectives. Bridget lectures part-time at Stellenbosch University and the University of Cape Town. She is highly sought after as a flute teacher and many of her students have excelled in competitions and in overseas studies, won scholarships for study abroad, and now teach and perform, several occupying positions in South African orchestras. A very well-known performer in multiple genres, Bridget has appeared as soloist with several South African orchestras. As the Solo Principal Flute of the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, she was the recipient of the prestigious Ben & Faye Carklin Award for Artistic Excellence. Recent awards include Fiesta, Silver Ovation, Fanie Beetge Academic Prize, and Oppenheimer Memorial Trust awards. Bridget is the principal flute of the Cape Town Festival Orchestra, permanent guest principal with the Free State Symphony Orchestra, and Baroque traverso flautist with the Camerata Tinta Barocca.

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