Always wanted to learn the flute? Enjoy a 50 minute beginner lesson with Maryland professor and musician, Dr. Laurel Ewell.

Laurel Ewell received her Doctor of Musical Arts from West Virginia University and her Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees from the University of Washington. She held the position of Assistant Principal and Second Flute of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. She also served as flute instructor for the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. Dr. Ewell has performed with the West Virginia Symphony, Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Lyric Mountain Music Festival, and the Laureate Wind Quintet, resident wind quintet of West Virginia University.

Her other chamber performances have included recitals for the International Double Reed Society, the Eastern Conference of the Music Teachers National Association, the Tuesday at Towson recital series at Towson University and the Sundays at Central concert series in Baltimore. In 2003 her performance of Reminiscence for solo flute by composer JianJun He was included on a recording by the Ningxia Da Di Video & Audio Publishing House.

Dr. Ewell’s dissertation titled “A Symbolist Melodrama: The Confluence of Poem and Music in Debussy’s La Flûte de Pan” won the DMA/PHD Dissertation competition for the National Flute Association in 2006.

Currently, Dr. Ewell lives in Baltimore, Maryland where she teaches flute and music theory for the Maryland Performing Arts Institute. She is also a founding member and performer with the Baltimore Flute Choir. Further information may be found at www.laurelewell.com.