BIO

Hailed for her "memorable" and "beautiful playing" (NY Classical Review and Opera News), flute and recorder extraordinaire Kelsey Burnham lives and loves to perform. Kelsey fell in love with early music as a student at Oberlin Conservatory where Michael Lynn first handed her a baroque flute in the winter of 2016. Kelsey quickly threw herself into historical performance by researching, studying, and playing flutes from the Renaissance to the Contemporary periods throughout her time at Oberlin. Since finishing her post-graduate studies at the Juilliard School, Kelsey has been across the pond and back again performing early and new music alike. The Baltimore native also holds a teaching position at The Peabody Conservatory’s Tuned-In Program working with scholarship students of all ages. As an alumni of the program, Kelsey’s teaching philosophy focuses on instilling confidence in her students who sometimes come from difficult backgrounds such as herself.