 | Praised as "truly a great chamber music experience" and "consummate musicians," the Dahlia Flute Duo is sought after as performers, lecturers, and clinicians. Flute, alto flute, and piccolo virtuosi, the Duo has multiple world premieres to their name. Mary Matthews and Melissa Wertheimer formed the Duo at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. |
The ensemble has been featured at the Avalon Theatre, Mannes's International Festival for Contemporary Performance, Artscape, the Academy Art Museum Series, the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory, the Peabody Spotlight Series, the Harmony Hall Series, the Baltimore Book Festival, the Candlelight Concert Society Outreach Series, the Walters Art Museum, and First Night Dover. Additional performances include publicity events held by Baltimore’s Wide Angle Youth Media and the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.
Consistent grant recipients, the Dahlia Flute Duo strives to share their love of classical and contemporary flute music with a wide array of audiences. They were awarded a Creative Baltimore Artist Grant, co-sponsored by the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Office of the Mayor of Baltimore City. The Duo also received a Yamaha In-Residence Fellowship from the College Music Society and three Peabody Career Development Grants.
In demand as conference presenters and performers, the Dahlia Flute Duo has been featured at the National Flute Association Convention, the International Alliance for Women in Music Congress, the College Music Society National Conference, the Flute Society of Washington's Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair, and the Rochester Flute Association's Rochester Flute Fair. As educators, the Duo maintains an active schedule of school outreach workshops and an annual summer masterclass.
Avid performers of the double flute concerto genre, the Dahlia Flute Duo was awarded the Honorable Mention in the 2010 Mary Graham Lasley Scholarship Competition of the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra. The Duo also performed as finalists in the Coeur D'Alene Symphony Orchestra's 2010 Young Artist Competition in Spokane, WA.
The Dahlia Flute Duo is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.
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