Past Presidents
Patricia Wolf Zuber
Patricia Wolf Zuber has performed with many major orchestras in the New York area, including the American Symphony Orchestra, New York City Opera, New York City Ballet, American Composers Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, and Westchester Philharmonic.
Wendy Stern
Flutist Wendy Stern received her MM from the Juilliard School. She is an avid proponent of newly composed chamber music and has premiered and recorded works by numerous composers during her twenty-five-year tenure with the flute quartet Flute Force.
John McMurtery
Flutist John McMurtery enjoys a multi-faceted career as a soloist, ensemble performer, orchestral musician and teacher. 2002 marked McMurtery's debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City with the eclectic ensemble UpTown Flutes. Mr. McMurtery has given countless premieres by renowned composers such as Sean Hickey, Jackson Hill, and Edward Taylor.
Nancy Toff
Nancy Toff is the author of Monarch of the Flute: The Life of Georges Barrère, The Development of the Modern Flute, and The Flute Book, and was curator of the exhibition Georges Barrère and the Flute in America at the New York Public Library, for which she wrote the catalog.
David Wechsler
David Wechsler is the founder and music director of the OMNI Ensemble. He is the principal flutist and personnel manager of the Connecticut Grand Opera, and the second flutist of the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Mr. Wechsler has played principal flute and various other chairs with many groups, including the Key West Symphony, Discovery Orchestra, New York Pops, New Jersey Symphony, American Symphony, American Composers Orchestra, New York City Opera, New York Grand Opera, Westchester Philharmonic, and Long Island Philharmonic.
Jayn Rosenfeld
Jayn Rosenfeld, flutist and executive director of the New York New Music Ensemble, also plays with the International Society of Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Richardson Players at Princeton University, the Washington Square Chamber Players, and is first flutist of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra.
Jan Vinci
First-prize winner of England's International Music Performance Competition, Jan Vinci has performed at such venues as Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, and Symphony Space, and at the Blossom Festival, the International Computer Music Conference in the Netherlands, the Electric Music Festival in England, Killington Music Festival, the Chamber Music Conference of the East at Bennington College, and several National Flute Association conventions.
Patricia Spencer
A recent performance for Patricia Spencer was her New York premiere of Elliott Carter’s Flute Concerto, in Alice Tully Hall with the Mannes Orchestra conducted by David Hayes. She has always been a trailblazer: in a March 2011 Merkin Concert Hall recital, she gave the U.S. premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Bijou, a theatrical work for which she was joined by bass clarinetist Lisa Preimesberger, along with the world premiere (revised version) of Shirish Korde’s Lalit, written for her and tabla player Samir Chatterjee.
