Parthena Owens is an accomplished musician and teacher who joined the Oklahoma
City University music faculty in 1989. She was raised near Pratt, Kansas and
earned her undergraduate degree from OCU. She received her Master’s in Flute
Performance from Northwestern University, where she studied with Walfrid Kujala.
She is a flutist with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, the Lyric Theatre
Orchestra, and the chamber ensemble Go For Baroque. Past credits include Acting
Principal Flutist with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and principal flutist and
featured soloist with the Lawton Philharmonic, Sinfonia of Mid-America, and
American Music Festival Orchestras. She was a member with the now-defunct
Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, and has performed solos with the Oklahoma City
University Symphony Orchestra and Wind Philharmonic. She is a founding member of
the Oklahoma Flute Society and a member of the Oklahoma City Sigma Aloha Iota
alumni group.
As Associate Instructor of Flute at OCU, she directs the OCU Flute Choir, which
performed at the 2001 National Flute Association convention in Dallas. At the
convention, she and her husband, Roger Owens, gave the world premiere of a flute
and percussion piece composed for them by Frank Lynn Payne.
She maintains a private flute studio of 14 students and is an active freelance
and recording musicians. She and her husband have one son, Cameron.
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