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The Flint Institute of Music
1025 E. Kearsley Street
Flint, MI 48503
Monday - Thursday 8 am - 7 pm
Friday 8 am - 5 pm | Saturday 9 am - 1 pm
810-238-1350
Flint Youth Theatre
1220 E. Kearsley Street
Flint, MI 48503
Monday - Friday 8:30 am - 5 pm
810-237-1530
(ext. 115); Winds and Brass Department Chair, Chamber Music Coordinator, and flute instructor. Jessica is also currently on faculty at UM-Flint and has been on the faculty of Spring Arbor University and the Michigan State University Community Music School. In summer 2009, she was the guest flute professor at the Limonest Conservatoire in France. Jessica holds a Bachelor of Music degree in music performance from the University of Wyoming and a Master of Music degree in music performance from Bowling Green University in Ohio. She recently earned her Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) degree from Michigan State University. Jessica has performed in the Flint, Lansing, Jackson, Traverse and West Shore Symphonies. A true lover of chamber music, she is the flutist for the Davanti Trio. The trio has performed throughout the Midwest and was a prize winner at the 2008 International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition held in Boston. Jessica also serves on the Executive Board as Secretary for the Southeast Michigan Flute Association and as an adjudicator for the Music Teachers National Association Young Artist Competition for Michigan.
(ext. 227) Liz Spector has been the English horn and associate principal oboe of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra since October, 2006. She has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland, the Rochester City Ballet, the Rochester Chamber Orchestra, Mercury Opera, and the Imani Winds. Liz has participated in summer festivals such as the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, Music in the Mountains in Durango, Colorado, the International Festival?Institute at Roundtop, Texas, and the West Branch International Music Festival and Institute. In summer 2008, she attended master classes at the Banff Center of the Arts as well as the orchestral program at the Lucerne Academy in Switzerland. Liz is the oboist in the Arabesque Winds, recent winners of the Coleman Saunderson Prize, the Arthur Foote Prize, and the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition. Ms. Spector has served on the faculty of the State University of New York at Geneseo, as well as the West Branch International Music Festival, and has taught privately for many years in Rochester, New York. Liz graduated from the Eastman School of Music with Distinction and a Performer's Certificate, where she studied with Richard Killmer.
(ext. 276) Low Brass. A native of Texas, James received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Arlington where he studied under Fort Worth Symphony Bass Trombonist, Dennis Bubert. Continuing his education in Texas he received his masters degree from Southern Methodist University where he studied under Dallas Symphony Principal Trombonist, John Kitzman. He is currently the Graduate Student Instructor at the University of Michigan where he is earning a Doctorate in Musical Arts on Trombone. James has performed with the Dallas Symphony, Dallas Wind Symphony, Abline Philharmonic and the Los Colinas Symphony Orchestra. He has taught privately for the past 7 years and enjoys the connection he has with all his students, former and present.
(ext. 275), Clarinet Instructor, Hentgen Honors Woodwind Quintet Coach: doctoral candidate (clarinet performance), Michigan State University; M.M. (clarinet performance), University of New Mexico; B.M. (clarinet performance), University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. In addition to her studio at FIM, Meghan is clarinet instructor at both Albion College and Mott College, and has a large private studio in the Greater Lansing area. She is an active soloist, chamber musician, and masterclass clinician. Recent orchestral experience includes playing in the Lansing, Jackson, and Plymouth Symphony Orchestras of mid-Michigan. Former teaching posts include Cadek Conservatory of Music and Bayside School for the Performing Arts in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
(ext. 235), Saxophone, Jazz Ensemble, Faculty Recital Series Coordinator, Adult Programs Coordinator: Doctoral Candidate, Michigan State University; M.M. (music performance), Bowling Green State University, B.M. (music performance), Youngstown State University; Adjunct faculty, University of Michigan-Flint. Winner, 2001 and 2002 Coleman Chamber Music Competition (California), 2002 MTNA Chamber Music Competition.
(ext. 267), New Horizons Intermediate Band, trumpet: M.M. and B.M. (music education), Southern Illinois University. Instructor for 32 years in Illinois and Michigan public schools, 27 of those years in the Kearsley School District. He enjoys adjudicating solo and ensemble as well as band and orchestra festivals. Directs the Instrumental Ensemble at church and plays in a brass quintet.
(ext. 203), Trumpet: bachelor's degree, Ithaca College; master's degree, New England Conservatory of Music. Principal trumpet, Midland Symphony. Fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center. Orchestral experience includes Sarasota Opera, Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, New World Symphony, Flint Symphony Orchestra and many regional orchestras in Michigan. Orchestral experience includes performances with conductors Ozawa, Temirkanov, Norrington, Williams, Rattle, Slatkin, de Leeuw, Tilson-Thomas, and Rostropovich. Has performed with a variety of artists including Mannheim Steamroller, Dave Brubeck, Rosemary Clooney, and Captain and Tennille.Member, Great Lakes Brass. Grand Prize winner of the Coleman Chamber Music Competition (Los Angeles, CA). Former faculty member at University of Miami (Coral Gables). Teachers have included Gilbert Johnson, Timothy Morrison, and Roger Voisin.