HS Winds

Elizabeth Shuhan is a visiting lecturer of flute at Cornell University and is on the flute faculty and Director of Education and Community Engagement at Opus Ithaca School of Music. Committed to coaching young musicians, Ms. Shuhan is a flute faculty artist at Luzerne Music Center where she works with young musicians from all over the world and performs with other faculty artists. Ms. Shuhan also coaches and mentors students at Ithaca College’s Summer Music Academy.  She is principal flutist of the Fort Smith Symphony (AR) and performs regularly with Ithaca New Music Collective, the Shuhan-Luk Trio and the Ithaca Flute Duo. Ms. Shuhan has held positions with the North Arkansas Symphony, the Meridien Symphony (MS) and has performed guest principal flute with the Rochester Chamber Orchestra, Binghamton Philharmonic, Finger Lakes Opera, and the Skaneateles Music Festival. Ms. Shuhan has recorded for Naxos, Albany and PBS and is a Burkart Flutes Artist. She performs on a Burkart 14K gold flute with a platinum headjoint and a Burkart Elite piccolo with gold fittings. She holds degrees from the University of Arkansas and the University of Southern Mississippi.