In October, she performed at the Chicago Flute Festival, collaborating with Chicago-based flutist Marie Bennet to co-present a powerful lecture-recital titled “Protest, Resistance, and Activism in Contemporary Classical Flute Music,” highlighting music composed in response to social, environmental, and political (in)justice issues. Beard also performed in a featured recital, “Powerful Musical Tapestries.”

In November, Christie was invited to be the guest speaker for Kristallnacht commemorations hosted by both the Jewish Federation of Tulsa (OK) and World Without Genocide (St. Paul, MN). For these events, she presented her lecture-recital, “The Role of Music During the Holocaust” and was joined by pianist Christi Zuniga in Tulsa. During her travels, she also visited the UMKC Conservatory of Music, sharing her Holocaust lecture-recital with the UMKC flute studio, and performed at Chapelview Assisted Living in Burnsville, MN.

Beard’s final solo performance of 2025 will take place on December 6 at 2 pm at the Samuel Bak Museum in Aksarben (Omaha), for which she has prepared a cleverly curated collection of pieces focusing on magic, myth, and lore – presented and narrated as a fairy elf princess – to coincide with the museum’s current exhibit exploring Magic Realism. Visit christiebeard.net for more information.