KRISTEN DYE

Kristen Dye is a freelance flutist and teacher based in Boston. A native of New York, she has been an active performer in New England and Colorado. She is a co-founder of the Aquila Summer Concert Series in Greeley, CO, which presented contemporary music to audiences in Northern Colorado. She performs with the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra and has played with many groups in the Boston area, including the Metropolitan Wind Symphony and the Equilibrium Ensemble. Currently, she teaches elementary band in Acton-Boxborough, MA. A strong advocate for contemporary music, Kristen has been a fellow with both the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) in 2014 and the Cortona Sessions for New Music in 2011 and 2015. She earned her BM in Music Education and Performance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an MM in Performance and an MM in Musicology from the University of Northern Colorado.