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Rebecca Powell Garfield is Principal Flutist of the Austin Symphony.  She was previously Second Flute of the Austin Symphony, and has also played with the Houston Symphony, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Houston Ballet Orchestra, Napa Valley Symphony, and California Symphony.  During the summer, she travels to Iowa to perform as a member of the Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra.  Her performances have been heard on NPR's Performance Today, the soundtrack for Spy Kids 2, and Houston Grand Opera's world premier recording of Of Mice and Men.  She has won First Price in the National Flute Association Orchestral Audition Competition, Mid-South Flute Society Young Artist Competition, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  She has participated in summer music festivals at Music Academy of the West, Brevard Music Center, and the International Festival-Institute at Round Top.  Her teachers have included Jacques Zoon, Thomas Robertello, Timothy Day, and Ruth Ann McClain.  Rebecca also teaches in Houston and Austin as is a faculty member of the Austin Chamber Music Center.

1st Runner-Up:

Bonnie Ham

Bonnie Ham earned her Master of Music degree and an Artist's Diploma from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, while studying with Peter Lloyd, retired principal flutist with the London Symphony.  Prior to that, she received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Louisville, studying with Kathleen Karr, principal flutist with the Louisville Orchestra.  In 2005, Bonnie was the first place winner in the Flute Society of Kentucky's Young Artist Competition, and was a finalist in the New Band at West Point and with the University of Louisville Symphony Orchestra.  Bonnie can heard playing principal flute with the St. Raphael Wind Capella, a double woodwind quintet performing in the Long Island and NYC areas, and in recital with her Music Departments of Marist College and SUNY Dutchess College.   In the last few years, she has earned substitute positions with the New World Symphony, New Haven Symphony, Haddonfield Symphony, Greater Newburgh Symphony and the West Point Military Academy Band.  Bonnie lives in Highland Falls, NY with her husband, euphoniumist Jason Ham.

2nd Runner-Up:

Deanna Little

Deanna Little is assistant professor of flute in the McLean School of Music at Middle Tennessee State University.  She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in education from the University of Northern Iowa, a Master of Music degree in flute performance and the Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University.  Her primary instructors include James Scott, Kate Lukas, Peter Lloyd, Trevor Wye, and Angeleita Floyd.  Little is a member of the Stones River Chamber Players, flutist in the MTSU Faculty Woodwind Trio and a frequent guest on Nashville's WPLN "Live from Studio C" radio broadcasts.  In addition to MTSU, Little teaches on the faculty of the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts in the summers.

The 2007 Myrna W. Brown Artist Competition was sponsored in part by Gemstone Musical Instruments.