Presence, artistry, and an irresistible energy have characterized the performances of flutist Stephanie Jutt ever since her highly acclaimed New York debut as first prize winner of the International Concert Artists Guild Awards. As winner of the International Pro Musicis Award, Ms. Jutt has been heard in recital around the world, including Paris, Freiburg, Rome, Munich, Lisbon, Bergen, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Boston, San Francisco, and New York. In Wisconsin, Jutt appeared in recital on the prestigious series, "Artists at the Pabst" in Milwaukee in 1994. As a winner of the New York Affiliate Artists Competition, Ms. Jutt has been in residence at University of Pennsylvania, University of Dayton, and numerous other American cities.

Stephanie Jutt has received major grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music. She has been a guest artist in the New York Philharmonic's "Prospective Encounters" new music series, performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and with the 92nd Street Y Orchestra. Appearances with American orchestras include the Boston Pops and the Brevard Festival Orchestra.

As a lifelong champion of new music, Ms. Jutt has performed many premiere performances, such as the first Madison performance of Gunther Schuller's Flute Concerto, which he conducted with the UW Symphony in Madison in 1992. Ms. Jutt performed the Christopher Rouse Flute Concerto with the Madison Symphony in 1997. In August 2001, Stephanie Jutt performed the premiere performance of David Maslanka's flute concerto at the National Flute Association annual conference in Dallas, Texas.

As a member of Gunther Schuller's New England Ragtime Ensemble, she has toured throughout Europe, the U. S., and the former USSR, and recorded for the Angel, Golden Crest, and GM labels. Her first solo recording was released on GM Records.

In addition, Stephanie Jutt has created a performance piece entitled "Private Lessons", which incorporates virtuosic flute music and autobiographical monologues.

Ms. Jutt has been the flute professor on the music faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1990, where she is principal flutist in the Madison Symphony and a member of the Wingra Woodwind Quintet. Ms. Jutt also served as professor of flute at Florida State University. She received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the New England Conservatory, where her teachers were Paula Robison and James Pappoutsakis. An additional year of intensive studies was completed in Vermont with Marcel Moyse.

Stephanie Jutt and Jeffrey Sykes, pianist, are co-directors of the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, an innovative summer chamber music festival in Wisconsin which celebrated its 16th season in the summer of 2007. Two live concert CDs of the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society have been released. Jutt and Sykes appeared in recital at the Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York in the fall of 2000 and in the Colburn School of the Performing Arts in Los Angeles in the spring of 2001 under the auspices of the Pro Musicis Foundation. They have recently released a collaborative project of Brahms sonatas recorded at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada in June 2002 on Centaur Records. Their live performances have been heard nationally on National Public Radio's popular program "Performance Today."

Stephanie Jutt has served on the board of the National Flute Association and also as the program chair for its annual convention in Nashville in August 2004.