zach sheets, flute

Zach Sheets enjoys a multi-faceted career as a chamber musician, orchestral flutist, composer/performer, and advocate for funding in the arts and music education. Zach has appeared as guest Principal Flute with the Boston Ballet, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Portland Symphony, Albany Symphony, and the Phoenix, Unitas, and Cape Cod Chamber Orchestras; and as a guest of the Boston Pops, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Chorus Pro Musica, and New World Symphony. Festival engagements include the Spoleto, Aldeburgh, Cabrillo, Royaumont, Britten-Pears, TIME:SPANS, ManiFeste@IRCAM, Klangspuren Ensemble Modern Academy, SinusTON, and June in Buffalo Festivals. At 23, Zach was named Principal Flute, Lyndon Paul Lorusso Chair, of the Cape Symphony Orchestra. He is a founding member of the [Switch~ Ensemble] and flute & piano Duo Axis, and currently works as Senior Director of Major & Institutional Giving at Community Music Center of Boston, the largest outside provider of music education to the Boston Public Schools.