Flutist Kathryn Cernauskas has made Canadian music a focus of her performing, publishing and recording activities.

While also playing traditional and international repertoire in solo recitals, concertos and chamber music concerts in North America, Europe and Asia, she has made a point of programming Canadian music whenever possible. Some notable performances include concerts of Canadian music for SOCAN’s New Music in New Places initiative at Vancouver International Airport, Calona Wineries in Kelowna, BC, the Vancouver Aquarium, the BC Museum of Mining at Britannia Beach, the Rocky Mountaineer Railway Station, the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden and the UBC Museum of Anthropology, most of these with soprano Heather Pawsey. 

Internationally, she has been invited to present concerts of Canadian solo flute music by such organizations as the Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik in Switzerland and Liechtenstein (including a broadcast by Swiss Radio) and the Institut Seni Lukis Malaysia. As a soloist and also as a member of such ensembles as the Vancouver New Music Ensemble and a founding member of Array, Days Months & Years To Come and Magnetic Band, she has premiered well over 100 Canadian compositions, including many pieces written especially for her.

Kathryn Cernauskas has released an independent CD titled Canadian Music for Solo Flute and appears on the CBC Ovation series as well as two Vancouver New Music CDs: West Light on Centrediscs and Tree Line on the CBC Musica Viva label.