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A distinguished soloist and freelance musician,
Tia Roper held the principal flute position of the New York
String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the Boston Civic Symphony
Orchestra, and the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in Japan.
She also won first prize in the 2004-2005 Artists International
Debut Recital Award and received critical acclaim for her
Carnegie Hall recital debut. In addition, Ms. Roper has performed
as a soloist with the Queens Symphony Orchestra and as a
member of the New York City Ballet Orchestra, New England
Philharmonic, and the Westchester Philharmonic.
She was a student at the Juilliard Pre-College where she
graduated with honors. Ms. Roper then attended the Manhattan
School of Music where she received her Bachelors of Music
Degree and Boston University where she received her Masters
Degree in Music Performance. Currently, she is a candidate
for the Doctoral Degree in music at Rutgers University where
she studies with Bart Feller. Her earlier flute studies have
been with Bradley Garner, Michael Parloff, and Rie Schmidt.
Ms. Roper is the recipient of the ASCAP Leiber and Stoller
Music Scholarship and American Symphony Orchestra League
Scholarship. She is a winner of both the New York Flute Club
Competition and the New York Newsday Young Soloist Competition,
and was awarded first-runner up in the Frank Bowen Young
Artist Competition in New Mexico. She has given concert performances
in Russia, Switzerland, Japan, Venezuela, and throughout
the United States.
As an active music educator, Tia Roper is on the faculty of
Bloomingdale School of Music and the Usdan Center for the Creative
and Performing Arts. |
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