Flute with David L.

David Le is a professional flutist based in Baltimore, Maryland, where he leads a diverse career as a recitalist, chamber musician, and educator. Nationally recognized throughout the United States, he won First Prize in the Florida Flute Association College Young Artist Competition, Hampton Roads Flute Faire Young Artist Competition, and has been a prizewinner of competitions sponsored by the Music Teachers National Association, National Flute Association, and the Tampa Bay Symphony. David is also a grantee of the Friends of Flutes Foundation, as well a past winner of the National Flute Association's Frances Blaisdell Memorial Scholarship. A dedicated teacher, David has been invited to present guest master classes and lectures at public school music programs, summer music institutes, universities, and music education conferences. Students of his private studio continue to win regional and national competitions; alumni are pursuing degrees at universities throughout the United States. While living in Baltimore, he has coached ensembles at the Peabody Preparatory and served on the flute faculty of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's OrchKids program, bringing musical instruction to students from disadvantaged backgrounds. David has performed with the Florida Lyric Opera, Experiential Orchestra, Hunt Valley Symphony, and Occasional Symphony. In addition, he was selected to attend the Marrowstone Music Festival for two seasons, performing with the Festival Symphony and Chamber Orchestras. David has performed under the batons of luminaries such as Marin Alsop, Edward Polochick, Leonard Slatkin, and Gene Young. He can be heard as soloist on the McCormick Percussion Group's album Plot: Music for Unspecified Instrumentation (Ravello Records) and Principal Flute on the USF Wind Ensemble's album Live at Carnegie Hall...and more (Mark Records). He is also Principal Flute on the Peabody Symphony Orchestra's forthcoming album, featuring the works of Aaron Jay Kernis conducted by Marin Alsop, to be released by the Naxos label in late 2017. David recently earned a Master of Music degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he was awarded a full scholarship and the Clinton Lee Arrowood Memorial Prize in Flute. A native Floridian, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Florida, where he was named a Presser Foundation Scholar and Distinguished Graduate in The Arts.