Linda Pereksta | Flute

Linda Pereksta is Professor of Music at The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where she teaches flute and directs the Early Music Ensemble. In high demand as a performer on historical flutes, she has performed with numerous period instrument ensembles, including Just Bach, Spire Baroque Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, and The Washington National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra. She was a prizewinner in the National Flute Association’s Baroque Flute Artist competition and Graduate Research Competition, served on that organization’s Historical Flutes Committee, has written articles for The Flutist Quarterly and Flute Talk, and was the longtime Editor of TRAVERSO.

Linda holds degrees from The University of Iowa, The Peabody Conservatory of Music, and Florida State University, where she held a Doctoral Fellowship. Her teachers have included Betty Bang Mather, Charles DeLaney, and Robert Willoughby, and she had additional historical flute studies with Colin St. Martin, Claire Guimond, and Rachel Brown. Equally accomplished on modern flutes, Linda plays Piccolo in the Madison Symphony Orchestra and Madison Opera, and is a frequent substitute player with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.