Aubrie Dionne

Ms. Dionne is an active performer, teacher, conductor, and adjudicator in New England. She is principal flutist of the New Hampshire Philharmonic Orchestra and the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed with the Great Waters Music Festival, Granite State Opera, the Handel Society of Dartmouth, Longy Chamber Orchestra, Brockton Symphony, Manchester Chamber Players, Hanover Chamber Orchestra, Granite State Symphony Orchestra, and the Manchester Choral Society. She has also performed in various solo recitals and as a soloist with the New Hampshire Symphony, the University of New Hampshire Symphony and Wind Symphony, the Strafford Wind Symphony, the New Hampshire Philharmonic, and the Lakes Region Symphony.

Ms. Dionne has won first place in the Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Artist Performance Competition for four consecutive years in 1996-1999. She has also won the University of New Hampshire Concerto Competition twice in 1999-2000. Ms. Dionne is on the faculty of Plymouth State University, Southern New Hampshire University and the Manchester Community Music School. She taught flute masterclasses at the Summer Youth Music School at the University of New Hampshire from 1998-2017. Her prize-winning students have won the Emerson Scholarship, the Granite State Auditions, and participated in The New Hampshire All State Music Festival. They have played in the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, the Dino Anagnost Youth Symphony Orchestra, the North East Youth Symphony Orchestra, Interlochen Arts Camp, and the Tanglewood Summer Music Festival. Ms. Dionne currently conducts a collegiate flute choir at Plymouth State University and a flute choir at the Manchester Community Music School. In 2003 and 2016 she was the guest conductor/clinician at the New Hampshire All State Chamber Music Festival where she worked with their flute choir. She has also adjudicated the New Hampshire Music Educators All State Auditions, the NHMEA Solo and Ensemble Festival, and the Greater Boston Flute Association Solo and Ensemble Festival.

She received her B.M. in music performance from the University of New Hampshire and has studied at the graduate level at the Longy School of Music. Her Teachers include Robert Willoughby and Peggy Vagts.