 Karin Aurell studied flute with among others Robert Aitken and William Bennett. After finishing her M.Mus. in music performance at the University of Goteborg, she spent many years playing principal flute in the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra on Sweden's Baltic coast before relocating to Canada in 2001. Since then she has been enjoying life as a freelance performer, performing regularly with all the orchestras in the Maritime Provinces, as well as in solo and chamber recitals across the region.
Karin played in the Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra (SON), in Southern Sweden, from 1988 until she moved to Canada. With this orchestra, she performed all across Europe, and recorded close to 30 CDs on the BIS and CPO labels. She has worked with such distinguished conductors as Franz Welser-Most, Daniel Harding, Leif Segerstam, Okko Kamu and Herbert Blomstedt.
Karin's first solo recording, Nightingales for Katy, was released in 2005. Her second CD, with Trio Arkaède (with Isabelle Fournier, violin and Julien LeBlanc, piano) was released to critical acclaim in summer 2008.
Karin is a founding member of Trio Arkaède, and performs with New Brunswick-based new music group Motion Ensemble, as well as participating in various other chamber and solo projects in the region. She is an advocate for new Canadian music and especially for music written by composers in the Atlantic Provinces. In November 2009, she was chosen by the Canadian Music Centre as one of 50 ambassadors to Canadian music.
Karin coaches the flute section of the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra and she teaches flute at the music departments of Université de Moncton and Mount Allison University.
She spends her summers in PEI, where she performs with the Charlottetown Festival Orchestra.
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