Karen Leech Flute Flute Studio Flute Techniques 135 Howard Hall Tel: 994-5761 kleech@montana.edu

Karen Leech, Flute, nationally recognized as an outstanding teacher has been flute professor at MSU for 35 years and her students are active throughout the United States performing and teaching. Her former students include recitalist and teacher Leonard Garrision, recording artist Rhonda Larson, and music administrator Renee Westlake. As a performer she filled the principal flute chair of the Bozeman Symphony for 34 years, played with world music groups the Montana Consort and MusiCollage and has performed several times at National Flute Association Conventions. She is a member of the International Flute Orchestra and has toured Eastern Europe, China, and Greece with this ensemble. She holds degrees from Smith College and the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati. She has studied with William Hebert and George Hambrecht and has played in master classes with Marcel Moyse, William Bennett, Julius
Baker, and Samuel Baron.

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