Linda Toote, Flute

 A native of New York, Linda Toote is the Principal Flutist of the Boston Lyric Opera. She performs regularly with the Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops and Esplanade Orchestras and with Collage New Music. 

Ms. Toote is currently on faculty at Boston University and Boston Conservatory. During the summer months she is on faculty at the Aria Institute, has coached chamber music and masterclasses at the Tanglewood Music Center and serves as Director of the Flute Workshop of Boston University's Tanglewood Institute.

Her recordings include many symphonic works with the Atlanta Symphony on the Telarc label and works of many genres with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops. A graduate of the Mannes College of Music, where she studied with John Wion, Ms. Toote also was a student of Thomas Nyfenger at Yale University.