Bach Festival Society of Winter Park
Nora Lee Garcia, flute
Professor of Flute at the University of Central Florida and Powell Flute Artist, Nora Lee Garcia is in demand internationally as a soloist, chamber artist, and teacher, and she has been featured as a guest artist in Carnegie Hall and at international flute festivals such as the French Flute Convention, III Convención AFE Sevilla, and the Peru Flute Festival, as well as numerous National Flute Association Summer Series and conventions.
As an orchestral and chamber musician, Nora Lee has performed under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas, Krystof Penderecki, and Karl Sollak, and with ensembles such as the Casals Festival, the Chautauqua Symphony, and the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra. She currently holds the position of principal flute with the Bach Festival Orchestra of Winter Park and the Florida Chamber Orchestra.
Nora Lee has served as a judge on the panels of the International Flute Competition in Mexico City and the National Flute Association’s Chamber Music and Young Artist competitions. She has premiered numerous pieces such as Prelude and Dance by Howard Buss (winner of the 2004 National Flute Association Newly Published Music Competition) and Under the Sultan by Gary Schocker at the 2012 Florida Flute Association Convention’s gala concert. An avid researcher of flute pedagogy, Nora Lee has published several articles for Flute Talk Magazine and Flutist Quarterly.
Nora Lee holds degrees from the University of Miami, the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, and the Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico. Her primary teachers include Michel Debost, James Galway, Bernard Goldberg, Christine Nield-Capote, Carol Wincenc, Bonita Boyd, and Peter Kern.
An active recording artist, Nora Lee will release her first solo album on the Centaur label in 2021. Most notably, she can be heard on the soundtrack for the Sony Pictures film The End of the Spear.
Thank you to our donors.
Flute Soloist Nora Lee Garcia is sponsored by a gift from Elizabeth Brothers in loving memory of Sydney I. and Marguerite Taylor-Lindsay Brothers
