Milwaukee Symphony
Orchestra member
Amy Taylor
is an accomplished
flute and piccolo player with a sensitive, poetic sound. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Texas
with a Bachelors in Music, and earned her Masters in Music from
Northwestern University.
In 2004, she won first place in the
National Flute
Association's Orchestral Excerpt competition.
Earlier this summer she performed with the
Minnesota Orchestra and will return to Minnesota in July to play
in FinnFest. In September she will join the
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra as
the piccolo player for
the 2008-2009 season.
Amy has been a member of the
Honolulu Symphony,
Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Southwest Michigan
Symphony. In addition, she has performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago,
and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. She has
participated in the Aspen Music Festival and was with Opera In The
Ozarks for five seasons.
In 2007 Amy was
selected to perform the part of the Red Maiden in a
production of The Stone Horse with cellist YoYo Ma, the Silk
Road Ensemble, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She also
participated in MusiCorps, a music
education and advocacy program sponsored by the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra that promotes music awareness and appreciation.
Later this year Amy will give a recital in the Chicago Cultural
Center as part of the LaSalle Bank Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert
series.
Fans of the hit TV series
Lost
can
catch her performance with the Honolulu Symphony on the Season IV
DVD, which will be available in December 2008.
Flute lessons
Amy teaches flute lessons
throughout the Milwaukee area. A patient, disciplined, caring instructor, she was
mentored by just such teachers herself: Southern Methodist
University Professor Claire Johnson, Dallas Opera First Flutist
Helen Blackburn, UNT Professor Terri Sundberg, and Chicago Symphony
flute legend Walfrid Kujala. She provides
instructions for flute and piccolo students of all ages and at all
levels.
Email:
amy@twoflutes.com
Phone: 972-977-5107
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