| A junior in Music Performance at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA), flutist Aaron Perdue, 21, was born in Lamar, Colorado, and graduated from Cheyenne Mountain High School (Colorado Springs) in 2005. He won the Pikes Peak Philharmonic Concerto Competition in 2002 and performed as a soloist at 15 years of age. He also won the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony Concerto Competition in both 2003 and 2004 – the only person to win it twice. |
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His primary teachers include Jeanne Baxtresser (former principal flute, New York Philharmonic), Alberto Almarza (former principal flute, Santiago Philharmonic) and Tim Day (principal flute, San Francisco Symphony). He has performed in master classes of Jim Walker, Alexa Still, Mathieu Dufour and Demarre Mcgill, and studied at the Music Academy of the West Summer Festival 2007 (Santa Barbara, CA). He soloed with the Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble as a freshman in 2006, won that School of Music’s Most Outstanding Freshman Scholarship and its Concerto Competition in 2006, and won its Most Outstanding Sophomore Scholarship in 2007. As part of an ensemble, he has performed under conductors John Williams, David Robertson, Jeffrey Tate, Juan Pablo Izquierdo, Dr. Robert Page, Alexander Lazarev, and Erich Kunzel. He has toured Spain, Chile, Costa Rica, and Italy as a soloist or ensemble member. He plays in the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra and is a substitute for the New World Symphony. He has been a member of the Vivace Flute Quartet and The Point Chamber Orchestra. On January 12th, he performed Carl Nielsen’s
Concerto for Flute and Orchestra.
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