Lucy Song
Assistant Professor of Flute
Music
Music - Instrumental
Music - Woodwinds
Biography
Lucy Song is an accomplished flutist and piccoloist, recognized for her engaging performances and dedicated teaching across the United States, Canada, and Europe. She enthusiastically joins 糖心vlog视频鈥檚 faculty in the Fall of 2024 as assistant professor of Flute. Previously, Ms. Song taught undergraduate and graduate students at the University of North Texas (UNT) as a Doctoral Teaching Fellow, where her responsibilities included teaching chamber music, directing the UNT flute ensemble, and contributing to the UNT Music Theory department.
Ms. Song's performance career is distinguished by her roles in orchestral and chamber music. She served as Second Flute with the Dubuque Symphony and has performed with prestigious ensembles such as the Milwaukee Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the Round Top Festival Institute, the Florentine Opera, and as the flute fellow for the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Additionally, she is a member of Vox Venti, a professional flute quartet of four emerging flute professors who highly value contemporary music and champion living composers. Ms. Song is an avid chamber musician and has performed most of the standard repertoire for wind quintet, flute/viola/harp trio, and flute quartet.
As a soloist, Ms. Song has been featured by the North Texas Wind Symphony, the Orchestre des Jeunes de Montr茅al, the Lowell Philharmonic, and the Seven Hills Symphony. Her accolades include prizes in several National Flute Association competitions, notably second prize in the Piccolo Orchestral Audition Competition and third prize in the Flute Orchestral Audition Competition. Ms. Song is deeply committed to the flute community, regularly appearing as a guest performer at events such as the Texas Flute Society Festival, Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention, Florida Flute Convention, and multiple National Flute Association conventions.
Ms. Song received her BMus in Flute Performance, with minors in Music Education and Economics, from McGill University, studying under Montreal Symphony flutists Denis Bluteau and Carolyn Christie. She earned her MM in Flute Performance from Northwestern University under John Thorne, former Associate Principal Flute of the Houston Symphony. She is completing her DMA in Flute Performance with a related field in Music Theory at the University of North Texas under the guidance of Terri Sundberg. Her extensive studies also include piccolo with Amy Taylor, Alyce Johnson, and Jennifer Gunn, and baroque flute with Dr. Na鈥檃ma Lion.
