Vicki Boeckman has performed as soloist and chamber musician throughout Scandinavia, the United States, England, Scotland and Germany, and has appeared on countless productions for Danish and Norwegian radio and television. Audiences are put at ease by her charming and confident stage manner and moved by the intensity of her musicality. She can be heard on the Kontra Punkt, Classico, Horizon, Musical Heritage America, Paula, Kadanza, and Primavera labels.

Vicki resided in Denmark from 1981-2004. While there she taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen for 12 years, and children of all ages at the Ishøj Municipal School of Music for 23 years. Together with colleague Dorte Lester she co-founded a regional recorder orchestra for children and young adults which continues to grow. In demand as a teacher, she has been guest professor at the Bloomington School of Music in Indiana and at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Music in Florence, Italy. In the US, she has coached and taught at workshops and seminars sponsored by early music and recorder societies in Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Washington. She has been on the faculty of the Music Center of the Northwest in Seattle since February 2005.

Vicki was co-founder of two popular Danish-based ensembles: Opus 4, which concentrates on performing trio sonatas from the 17th and 18th centuries, and Wood’N’Flutes, a recorder trio playing works spanning the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Wood’N’Flutes has commissioned and premiered several works by Danish composers and they been on three  American tours, in January 2003, March 2005 and October 2007.  They are scheduled to return in October 2009.

In the Seattle area, Vicki has been a featured soloist with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and Philharmonia Northwest Orchestra. She is a returning guest with the Gallery Concerts Series with harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree, The Northwest Girl Choir, and the Medieval Women’s Choir with Margriet Tindemanns.  She is actively involved in the Seattle Recorder Society and is the Music Director for the newly formed Portland Recorder Society.

Vicki has been the recipient of many grants and performance awards and was chosen to be the recorder Artist-in-Residence at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Oregon in May 2005.