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Alumni Spotlight: Shannon Vandzura

Shannon Vandzura's Biography: Shannon Vandzura, 26, is a flutist from Minotola, New Jersey currently living in New York City. She enjoys a vibrant freelance career in the Northeast region. She frequently performs with the New York Philharmonic, Symphoria, New Haven Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Albany Symphony, Symphony in C, as well as other regional orchestras. She holds the position of Second Flute in the Montclair Orchestra and Nutmeg Symphony. She was a flute fellow at Spoleto Festival USA in 2019 & 2020 and has spent the summer of 2017 & 2018 as a flute fellow at Tanglewood Music Center working with musicians in the Boston Symphony. She recently graduated from the Manhattan School of Music in the prestigious Orchestral Performance program in 2020. She graduated with her Masters from the Manhattan School of Music in 2018 under the tutelage of Robert Langevin and received her Bachelors from the Hartt School in 2016 under Janet Arms.