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Christine Bailey Davis
Q&A
What is your hometown?
Buffalo, NY
How long have you been with the BPO?
Since 1995
What is your favorite part of being a member of the BPO?
Getting to live in my hometown
What is your favorite piece of music?
Too many to pick just one
What other orchestras have you performed with?
St. Louis Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Erie Philharmonic
What types of music do you like to listen to?
60's, 70's and 80's are my favorite
Do you play any other instruments?
No
What do you like to do in your free time?
Spend time with my family
What is your favorite movie?
Thornbirds
What is your favorite TV show?
Sex and the City
What is your favorite restaurant?
Too many to pick just one
What do you like best about Buffalo?
The mild winters
Biography
Christine Bailey Davis has been the principal flutist of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra since 1995. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, she has also performed as guest flutist with the St. Louis Symphony and Erie Philharmonic.
Ms. Bailey Davis has been performing around the Buffalo area as both soloist and ensemble player since she was eleven years old.After soloing with the BPO on two daytime youth concerts in 1990, she made her professional debut in 1992, at age 18, soloing with New York City chamber orchestra Philharmonic Virtuosi, at Artpark, in Lewiston, NY. She has also soloed with Ars Nova Musicians, and Amherst Symphony. After two performances of Carl Nielsen's Concerto for Flute and Orchestra with the BPO in 1997, the Buffalo News called her playing "immaculately accurate, but with a winning, casual, often jaunty approach to phrasing, while extremely complex runs and ornamentations seemed artlessly simple, beguiling sculptures of sound".
Ms. Bailey Davis has performed on almost a dozen studio and live recordings with the BPO.After the BPO's release of Rhapsodie, a disc of French music, the American Record Guide said that is her solo in Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite 2: "… and Christine Lynn Bailey's flute solo is one of the sweetest and most touching ever captured on records".
Christine commissioned Tracing Mississippi, a concerto for flute and orchestra, from American Indian composer Jerod Impinchchaachaaha Tate, and performed the world premiere with the BPO in 2002. The performance was named in the Buffalo News' top ten concerts of 2002.Ms. Bailey Davis recorded the concerto in June 2007 with the San Francisco Symphony. The disc was released on Thunderbird Records, a new label dedicated entirely to Amercian Indian music.
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