About Carmen Lemoine

Described as "one of the most exciting of the new, young players," Carmen Lemoine recently won the Second Flute position in the Santa Cruz Symphony. She earned her Master of Music degree in May 2005, studying under Tim Day at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Before moving to the Bay Area, she graduated magna cum laude from the Eastman School of Music with her Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance and from the University of Rochester with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics. Her past instructors include soloist Bonita Boyd, Martha Aarons of the Cleveland Orchestra, Anne Harrow, and Dr. Valerie Watts.

Ms. Lemoine's orchestral expertise has taken her to Carnegie Hall, Miami, Aspen, and Charleston, South Carolina with such ensembles as the New York String Orchestra, the New World Symphony, and the Spoleto Festival Orchestra. In 2003, she received an invitation to join Hamburg, Germany’s Philharmonie der Nationen. She has performed under conductors Julius Rudel, David Zinman, Jaime Laredo, Murry Sidlin, Mendi Rodan, Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Reinbert de Leeuw.

Building on seven years of experience, Carmen continues to teach flute privately to students of all ages and levels. Due to her dynamic yet patient method, her students “have built more confidence working with her than with any other flute teachers in the past." She is grateful to have the ability to change people's lives in such a way and strives to provide a supportive environment in which to learn.