Education

B.M. Ithaca College (Music Education & Flute Performance,1998)
M.Mus. University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (Flute Performance, 2000)
D.M.A. University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (Flute Performance, 2006)

Bio

An accomplished musician, Lori Kesner enjoys a versatile career that encompasses both the fields of flute performance and world music.  Prior to relocating to Maryland, Dr. Kesner was a Visiting Instructor of Music at Miami University (OH) where she taught flute, world music courses, and directed an African and Andean world music ensemble.  She was also on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) as a flute instructor with the Preparatory Department and director of the Andean World Music Lab.  Dr. Kesner is currently on the faculties of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the Community College of Baltimore County and plays regularly with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, Annapolis Opera, and the Lancaster (PA) and Key West (FL) Symphony Orchestras.  Additional experience in the orchestral field has included performances with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, IRIS Orchestra (TN), Richmond Symphony (VA), Binghamton Philharmonic (NY), Utah Festival Opera, National Repertory Orchestra, AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria, and the Opera Theatre of Lucca, Italy.  In 2002 Dr. Kesner was awarded a Fulbright grant to study Karnatak flute in South India.  She has also been a second-prize winner in the 2002 National Flute Association Orchestral Audition and Masterclass Competition, a two-time winner of the NFA Masterclass Performers Competition (2000 and 2001), a finalist in the 2001 Myrna W. Brown Artist Competition, and a semi-finalist in the 2001 Frank Bowen Competition.

Dr. Kesner holds both a doctoral and a master’s degree from CCM, where she studied flute with Bradley Garner and Randolph Bowman and piccolo with Jack Wellbaum.  She also earned a Bachelor of Music, Summa Cum Laude, from Ithaca College under Wendy Mehne.  Dr. Kesner has performed in masterclasses for such distinguished flutists as Göran Marcusson, Julius Baker, Michel Debost, Paula Robison, and Marina Piccinini.