Leone Buyse, flute

Buyse is the professor of flute at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. Former acting principal flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and former principal flutist of the Boston Pops, Buyse is also a former assistant principal flutist of the San Francisco Symphony. She has been a soloist with l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Utah Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, and the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra. Buyse has been a featured artist teacher at the Aspen, Norfolk, Orcas Island, Sitka, Maui, Strings in the Mountains, Domaine Forget, and Park City Festivals, the Lake Placid and Ithaca Flute Institutes, and the Aria International Summer Academy Institute. She has collaborated with the Tokyo and Juilliard string quartets and has presented recitals and master classes in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Mexico, Europe and South America. Buyse joined the Sarasota Music Festival faculty in 2000.