Patti Watters

Flute

Patti Watters, Flute, a native Texan, is Adjunct Flute Professor at Old Dominion University and Coordinator of Instrumental Music at the Governor's School for the Arts where she has taught music theory and flute since the school's inception. She founded the GSA Flute Choir in 1989 and was Director of the Hampton Roads Flute Choir from 1997 - 2002. As Coordinator of the Hampton Roads Flute Faire, Ms. Watters brings nationally knownflutiststo Old Dominion University each year for a festival of master classes and recitals for the flute community.Ms. Wattersperforms frequently with the Virginia Symphony, the Virginia Arts Festival, Todd Rosenlieb Dance, and The Commonwealth Trio.

In the summer of 2006, Mrs. Watters received a Surdna Foundation Arts Teachers Fellowship to study with Ransom Wilson,international flutist and conductor in Monterchi, Italy.Mrs. Watters was Principal Flute with the Tidewater Winds for twenty yearsand Principal Flute with the San Jose (California) Symphony and the Midsummer Mozart Festival in San Francisco for ten years. She was Second Flute/Piccolo with the Washington, D.C. Opera Orchestra and the Virginia Beach Pops andperformed for the 2002 National Flute Association Convention in Washington D.C. She has recorded for the Smithsonian Institution and performed with orchestras at the Kennedy Center and Wolf Trap. Mrs. Watters received her Bachelors and Masters with high honors in flute performance from the University of Texas at Austin. Her principal teachers are John Hicks, Paul Renzi, and summer studies with Julius Baker.

Email:
PWatters@odu.edu