Michael Alampi
Michael Alampi is a multifaceted musician and Altus Flutes Performing Artist based in the New York tri-state area. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree and LRAM diploma from the Royal Academy of Music and Masters of Music degree from Mannes School of Music where he held the President's Scholarship.
As an orchestral musician, Michael has played with the New York Philharmonic, Radio City Orchestra, Aspen Festival Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of New York, New England Symphonic Ensemble, on Broadway, and with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Encuentro de Santander under maestro Krzysztof Penderecki, among others.
Currently adjunct faculty in flute and chamber music at Queens College Aaron Copland School of Music, Michael has presented masterclasses and lectures at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith, Stephen F. Austin State University, Monmouth Conservatory of Music, and Yamaha Conservatory of Music.
A former prize winner of the Yamaha Performing Artists Competition, Michael was a Polonsky Foundation fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School. In 2019, he was awarded the Jo Weinberg Award from the Royal Academy of Music.
His principal flute mentors have included Michael Cox, Judith Mendenhall, Elizabeth Mann, Karen Jones, Linda Chesis, Michael Parloff, Laura George, Helen Keen (piccolo), Patricia Morris (piccolo) and Lisa Beznosiuk (Baroque flute). He has taken much inspiration in regular masterclasses with William Bennett, Emily Beynon, Paul Edmund-Davies, Robert Langevin, and Paula Robison among others.
