New students of all ages and levels are accepted regularly throughout the year.  Please email Susan through the contact page for more information. 

      A native of Kansas City, Flutist Susan Murphy has appeared as featured soloist with the Youth Symphony of Kansas City, the Kansas City Symphony, the former K.C. Camerata, the UMKC Conservatory Orchestra and the NewEar Ensemble, the latter of which she is a co-founder. She has also performed as a regular member for over eight years with the professional ensembles:   K.C. Camerata, NewEar; and for many more years the free lance groups: Rafael Trio and the Classical Muse Ensemble.  Recital locations include N.Y.C., Cincinnati, and enumerous in K.C.  She has performed flute, piccolo and alto flute with many of K.C.’s Theater League productions, the National Flute Association Convention, and the K.C. Chamber Orchestra.  She has twice been a finalist in Myrna Brown International Flute Competition in Texas, a prize recipient at Julius Baker's Connecticut summer class.   Susan has also been a  featured performer on Cincinnati Public Radio.

     Susan received her Bachelor’s Degree in Performance from the UMKC Conservatory, attended Manhattan School of Music in NYC and completed her Masters Degree in Performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory in 1991.  Master class performances for, or, summer studies with, include many of our flute greats:  James Galway, Paula Robison, Jimmy Walker, the late Julius Baker, Leone Buyse, Julia Bogorad, Jeffrey Khaner, the late Sam Baron, the late Thomas Nyfenger, Bonnie Boyd and more.  

     Simultaneously during her many years of study and performance, Susan has always enjoyed instructing flutists as young as 3 and as old as 83!  In the last 18 years, she has taught at Cincinnati's School for the Performing Arts, the UMKC Conservatory, and Pittsburg State University.   Her students have been featured concerto soloists, nominated for national and local bands, and continue to be members in the Kansas City Youth Symphony, and hold principal and other chairs in the All State and District Bands, as well as their school ensembles.  They have performed with the Kansas City Symphony, at the National Flute Association Convention, many times for the Kansas City Flute Association, participated in and been scholarship recipients at summer music camps local and out of town, and performed at local nursing homes.