Jocelyn Goranson is Instructor of Flute at Messiah University and Contributing Faculty Flute Instructor and Faculty Wind Quintet member at Dickinson College. She holds performance degrees from West Virginia University and Rice University. Ms. Goranson has performed solo, orchestral, and chamber music in ten countries, along with Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, and The Apollo Theater. She was winner of the 2006 Frank Bowen Competition, semifinalist in the 2006 NFA Young Artist Competition, National Winner of 1995 and 1998 MTNA Competitions, and finalist in the 2009 Byron Hester Competition and 2003 Myrna Brown Competition. She has been featured as a soloist with the New Mexico Symphony and other ensembles throughout the mid-Atlantic and Texas.
Ms. Goranson has performed with the Hershey Baroque Chamber Ensemble, Lancaster Symphony, York Symphony, Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, Dallas Wind Symphony, Longview Symphony, Wheeling Symphony, Irving Symphony, Plano Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco. Her teachers include Joyce Catalfano, Leone Buyse, and Robert Langevin.
Ms. Goranson lives in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania with her husband, Todd Goranson, a celebrated saxophonist and bassoonist, and her two teenage boys whom she homeschools. She is also a pianist and worship leader at her church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. When she is not teaching her college students or her children, she enjoys cooking, reading, hiking, and riding her tricycle to local farmers markets.
