Dr Bridget Rennie-Salonen, flautist, lecturer, researcher, and musicians’ health practitioner is Senior Lecturer and Head of Woodwinds at the Music Department of Stellenbosch University (SU); lecturing in flute; traverso; woodwind teaching methods, repertoire studies, and orchestral studies; musicians’ health; and directing wind ensembles. She supervises postgraduate research and leads the SU Health, Arts, and Performance Initiative (HAPI). She is highly sought after as a flute pedagogue, and many of her former students have excelled in competitions and in overseas studies, won scholarships for study abroad, and now occupy key performance, entrepreneurial, and educational positions in the South African (SA) music sector. Bridget is Vice-Chair of the Instrumental and Vocal Music Teaching Commission (IVMTC) of the International Society for Music Education (ISME). As a Licensed Body Mapping Educator and Training Mentor and holding certificates in the Essentials of Performing Arts Medicine and in Functional Movement Anatomy, she is particularly interested in the field of somatic education, and the interaction of the psychological, physical, and artistic aspects in performing artists, from preventative, therapeutic, and performance optimization perspectives. Bridget is chairperson of the South African Performing Arts Health Association, is a core member of the international Musicians' Health Literacy Consortium and is co-editor on the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Musician Health Advocacy. A well-known performer in multiple genres, Bridget has appeared as a soloist with several SA orchestras. As the Solo Principal Flute of the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra for many years, she was the recipient of the prestigious Ben & Faye Carklin Award for Artistic Excellence. Other awards include Fiesta, Silver Ovation, Fanie Beetge Academic Prize, Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, STIAS Residential Fellowship, Erasmus-Plus Mobility Grant, and SU Postdoctoral Fellow awards. As a freelancer, Bridget is the principal flute of the Cape Town Festival Orchestra, and Baroque traverso flautist with the Cape Town Baroque Orchestra.