Her teaching career began as a flute instructor for Holland Music Studios in Rochester, NY in 2008. In addition to her performing career, Haley is a passionate educator. She has also performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Annapolis Symphony, Evansville Philharmonic, New World Symphony Orchestra, and the Colorado and Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestras. She previously served as Associate Principal Flutist of the Omaha Symphony Orchestra and Principal Flutist of the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C. Haley Bangs, a native of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the Second Flutist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Barker received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music under the instruction of Bonita Boyd, and his Master of Music degree from Carnegie Mellon University, where his teachers were Jeanne Baxtresser and Alberto Almarza. He is a recipient of the 2018 Ford Musician Award for Excellence in Community Service for his work with Seattle’s homeless population through the Seattle Symphony’s Simple Gifts Initiative. A Seattle native, Jeffrey is passionate about using music to connect with his community. He has also performed with top orchestras around the country, including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Oregon Symphony. Previously, he played as Principal Flute of the Boise Philharmonic since 2009. Jeffrey Barker is Associate Principal Flute of the Seattle Symphony, a position he began in the 2015–2016 season. Her teachers have included Bonita Boyd, Thomas Nyfenger, Samuel Baron, John Krell, Neal Zaslaw and Joyce Catalfano. A candidate for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music, she received a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music, and a Master of Music from Ithaca College. In addition, she has taught at the Eastman School of Music, Ithaca College, Mansfield University, and 171 Cedar Arts Center. For over fifteen years she has taught private flute lessons at Cornell University where she was recently appointed visiting-lecturer in music. A Lecturer in Music at Nazareth College, she is flute instructor as well as the director of the Flute Chamber Ensembles. A founding member of the Pro Musica Chamber Ensemble, she is also a board member of the Troika Association which sponsors concerts of new music and dance. Please visit or for more information.Ī native of Ithaca, New York, Liisa Ambegaokar Grigorov is a member of Fingerlakes Flutes and has performed with the Albany Symphony, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Grassroots Festival Orchestra, the Cornell Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, Ensemble X, as well as with the Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra and Cornell University Wind Ensemble as concerto soloist. She is currently a member of two regional orchestras in the Midwest, is Co-Director of the Irish Arts Academy of Indianapolis, maintains a full private studio, teaches at Ivy Tech Community College, is a faculty member at Floot Fire (Dallas, TX) and the International Flute Symposium, performs with the Indianapolis Ceílí (Irish) Band, and freelances in the Indianapolis area. She has also won the Byron Hester Young Artist Competition, was a prizewinner at the Myrna Brown Young Artist Competition, and a silver medalist at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. While at Eastman, Hilary won the 2003 Nielsen Flute Concerto Competition allowing her to perform with the Eastman Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra in a gala concert honoring Professor Emeritus, Joseph Mariano. The Fourth Wall pioneers new performance strategies such as Mixer, an audience interactive performance project where audience members are also performers and Fruit Flies Like a Banana, a hybrid arts sprint-triathlon in which the ensemble performs over 20 pieces in 60 minutes with the audience determining the show order. The Fourth Wall tours nationally having performed at venues from Alaska to Boston including featured events at three National Flute Association Conventions. Rice University) is the flutist for The Fourth Wall, a hybrid arts ensemble in which musicians are also actors and dancers.
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