Francesca Arnone
Assistant Professor Flute
Francesca Arnone is Assistant Professor of Flute, Director of the WVU Flute Choir, and member of the Laureate Wind Quintet. She earned flute performance degrees from Oberlin (BM), the San Francisco Conservatory (MM), and the University of Miami (DMA). Her primary teachers include Robert Willoughby, Julia Bogorad, Tim Day, Christine Nield, and Sandra Church. She has served as Principal of the Boise Philharmonic for four seasons, and as Piccolo of the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra since 1997. Prior to this, she was Co-Principal and Piccolo of the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico). She has performed with the Florida Philharmonic, the Florida West Coast Symphony, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Missouri Chamber Orchestra, and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife (Spain), among others. She has been both a flute and piccolo concerto soloist in the United States and Mexico. Before coming to WVU, she taught at Northwest Nazarene University, Boise State University, and Idaho State University. A winner of the National Flute Association’s Doctoral Dissertation and Convention Performers competitions, she has appeared in the Dallas, Las Vegas, and San Diego annual conventions. While at the San Francisco Conservatory, she had the privilege of being a year-long participant in Bobby McFerrin’s “Creativity 101” Class.
Link to the 2008 WVU High School Flute Camp
Link to the 2008 Trevor Wye Seminar
