The JMU Flute Club is a chapter of the National Flute Association and serves to promote the flute and flute-related activities. This organization supports the activities of the JMU Flute Studio and the JMU Flute Choir in the School of Music by providing fundraising, educational, and social opportunities for students, faculty, and other flute players and teachers within Harrisonburg, the Shenandoah Valley, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Mid-Atlantic region. Its primary activities consist of sponsoring guest artists in concerts, lectures, and master classes, as well as presenting its annual FLUTE FLING! Presented and sponsored by the students of the JMU Flute Club, FLUTE FLING! is a fun and informative day of flute activities geared toward pre-college students, teachers, and other flute enthusiasts.

Cassie Turek, President
Elise Schauer, Vice-President
Claire Bennefeld, Secretary
Tanya Davis, Treasurer
Sarah Anderson & Lindsay Carr,
Webmasters/Historians
Dr. Beth Chandler, Advisor, JMU Flute Professor

The James Madison University Flute Choir is one of the oldest flute choirs in the United States. Organized in the 1970s, this group has been a pioneering force among flute choirs, influencing other ensembles throughout the country and encouraging the composition of new music for flute choir through commissions and its former Flute Choir Composition Competition.. Membership in the JMU Flute Choir is by audition. The ensemble includes bass flutes, alto flutes, C flutes and piccolos.

Because of the need for original music for flute choirs, the JMU Flute Choir established an annual Flute Choir Composition Competition which was held for seventeen years. Nearly all of the winning compositions are published and widely available.

The JMU Flute Choir has performed in many cities on the East Coast, including Washington, D.C. at the 2002 National Flute Association Convention, the Flute Society of Washington's Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair, and the White House; Boston at the 1993 National Flute Association Convention; Baltimore at the Maryland Music Educators Convention; Richmond at the Virginia Music Educators Convention;, and Newport News at the Hampton Roads Flute Faire. The JMU Flute Choir toured England in the spring of 1999 and has released two compact discs, Sounds and Colors and Sounds and Colors II.

For more information about the JMU flute programs, please contact

Dr. Beth Chandler, JMU’s flute professor, at chand2be@jmu.edu.

JMU School of Music        JMU Flute Studio