Minta White is an award-winning flutist, chamber musician, and improvisor with performances in the United States and Canada. Her "amazing range of flute usage" crosses many genres, from classical music to free improvisation. She earned a Master of Music degree in Modern American Music Performance from Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA. At Longy, she studied classical flute with Marco Granados and jazz flute with Hiro Honshuku and Peter Cassino. She graduated magna cum laude from the Hartt School of Music, where she studied with John Wion, earning a Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance. She has also studied with Dr. John Barcellona, flutist/composer Gary Schocker, HSO assistant principal flutist Dr. Barbara Hopkins, and jazz flutist Ali Ryerson. She has won several awards for flute performances, most recently winning the Honors Competition at Longy School of Music in 2012. She has performed with many well known improvisors, including Latin Grammy winner Alex Brown, pianist for Paquito D’Rivera’s band, Joe Morris (guitar) and Stephen Haynes (trumpet). Minta is an ardent proponent of new music and has premiered works by several living composers, including Josh Hummel’s “Wu-Wo” for flute and piano and Arthur Hernandez’s “Three Meditations for Flute and Guitar”. She performed in the 2018 world premiere of Jessica Rudman’s opera “Marie Curie Learns to Swim”, with the Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra (HICO), in collaboration with Hartford Opera Theater (HOT). With HOT, she also performed in the 2019 world premiere of Beth Ratay and Rich Orloff’s “ A Womb with a View” for the 10th Annual New in November Festival. Minta has organized and performed in many concerts for the Women Composers Festival of Hartford, serving as Assistant Director in 2009. She has also served as Music Director of the Riverwood Poetry Series. Minta has performed throughout New England in collaboration with the Alturas Duo, and is a current member of the Connecticut Flute Orchestra. She has also performed as a founding member of the free improvisation collective Carte Noire with pianist Tim Peck. With Carte Noire, she has participated in performances for the International Society for Improvised Music’s 9th Annual Festival and Conference in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, the Altar’d Spaces program for the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, CT, and Capital Community College in Hartford, CT, among others. Minta currently gives private lessons in flute and free improvisation online. For more about Minta’s work as a teacher, please visit her teaching page at www.mintawhite.com/teaching.