Lecturer, Flute
BM, Mannes College of Music. A native of New York, Linda Toote is the Principal Flutist of the Boston Lyric Opera. She performs regularly with the Boston Symphony, and the Boston Pops and Esplanade Orchestras, Musica Viva and the Boston Artists Ensemble. She has held principal flute positions with the Atlanta and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras, the Santa Fe and Lake George Opera Orchestras and has served on the faculty of Emory University. Ms. Toote has given master classes throughout the United States and Canada and in Taiwan. A graduate of the Mannes College of Music, where she studied with John Wion, Ms. Toote also was a student of Thomas Nyfenger at Yale University. Her recordings include many symphonic works with the Atlanta Symphony on the Telarc label.