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Lish Lindsey is a classically trained flutist/piccoloist residing in both NYC and NJ and freelancing in NY, NJ, and PA. She has performed in the United States, China, and England. Performance venues include Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center (NYC), Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall, Perelman Theater and Commonwealth Plaza (Philadelphia), New Jersey State Theatre, Trenton War Memorial, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.
Currently she is piccoloist/flutist with the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra (Masterworks concerts were broadcast via Philadelphia's WHYY radio 91FM in October 2005/2006 and February/December 2007), flutist with the wind quintet 5 for Dinner and Play By Heart Ensemble, and has performed on both flute and piccolo with the Harrisburg and Lancaster Symphonies, Riverside Symphonia, Strauss Symphony of America, Rittenhouse Orchestra, Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, Masterworks Orchestra, Center City Opera Theater, and Paramus Community Orchestra.
Lish won a flute/piccolo position with the Rome Festival Orchestra via international audition and was a scholarship recipient to the International Foundation for Artistic and Musical Excellence Festival and the C.W. Post Chamber Music Festival at Long Island University. She was also chosen to be an alternate at the Texas Music Festival. In May 2007 Lish was a finalist/runner up in the Opera Company of Philadelphia's auxiliary flute/piccolo audition.
As an avid wind symphony advocate she is a member of the Eastern Wind Symphony (Dr. William H. Silvester, music director) and can be heard on at least 14 CDs over the past 7 years, many pieces broadcast on Philadelphia (Temple 90.1) and Princeton (WPRB 103.3) radio stations. In the spring of 2006 Lish and fellow flutist David DiGiacobbe performed a new arrangement (by Nancy and Bill Silvester) of Doppler's Andante and Rondo for two flutes with the ensemble. That recording was released on the CD Wind Tableaux in Fall 2007. She has performed and recorded under the direction of Alfred Reed, Clark McAllister, and others. Lish has also kept a close relationship with the Wind Symphony of Southern NJ (Dr. Bob Streckfuss, music director) and the Tri-County Symphonic Band (Dr. Ron Willoughby, music director), two prominent ensembles serving south Jersey.
Opera/Musical theatre performances include: West Side Story, Candide, Oliver!, Anything Goes, Beauty and the Beast, Once Upon a Mattress, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oklahoma!, Annie Get Your Gun, Fiddler on the Roof, Music Man in Concert, Miss Saigon, Once on This Island, Kiss Me Kate, Mystery of Edwin Drood, Ragtime, Picture of Dorian Gray (Liebermann), Ballad of Baby Doe, La Boheme (chorus), and others.
Lish earned her Master's in Flute Performance at New York University under the tutelage of Dr. Brad Garner. She also had weekly repertoire/master class with Keith Underwood. Lish performed on both flute and bass flute with NYU's New Music and Dance Ensemble directed by Dr. Esther Lamneck, was a member of the New Music Rep. Ensemble (performing with violin, cello, clarinet, and piano), and was the piccoloist with the Symphony Orchestra under Michael Lankaster and Wind Ensemble under Paul Cohen.
Primary flute studies include Julius Baker, Dr. Brad Garner, David DiGiacobbe, Dr. Dent Williamson, David Ancker, and Ronna Ayscue. Additional lessons were with Keith Underwood, David Cramer, Jeff Khaner, and Adeline Tomasone. Quintet and chamber coaching sessions have been with Haewon Kim, Jeff Scott, Matt Sullivan, Roger McKinney, George Balog, and Vanita Jones.
Lish has also performed in many master classes and was invited by Julius Baker to attend his master class after performing for him at the International FAME Festival. She has performed for Philippe Pierlot, Keith Underwood, David DiGiacobbe, Goran Marcusson, Joshua Smith, Sandra Church, Brad Garner, Susan Glaser, Stephanie Mortimore (piccolo master class), Steve Tanzer (piccolo master class), Nobataka Shimizu, Kelly McDermott, Jeff Khaner, Jill Felber, and Dent Williamson. She was invited to perform in two master classes given by the New York Flute Club, a piccolo master class sponsored by the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia, and attended the Cincinnati Flute Symposium as a performer in June 2006.
As an educator, Lish is the adjunct flute professor at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. She is also an instructor at the Bronx House School of Performing Arts (Bronx, NY), Paramus Community Music School (Bergen Co, NJ) and teaches for Musical Associates (Manhattan, NY). She also has a private studio in Haddonfield, NJ.
Lish is a member of AFM Local 77 and National Flute Association and has held membership with the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia and the New York Flute Club.



Lish Lindsey, Flute and Piccolo






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