Lisa Garner Santa currently serves as principal flutist with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra and as Artist-Performer and Associate Professor of Flute at Texas Tech University where she enjoys a diverse career as teacher, recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician. Performance highlights include the world premiere of Mike Mower's Concerto for Flute and Wind Ensemble and a Carnegie Hall debut recital featuring Chamber Works for Flute. Her recent CD release of From Noon to Starry Night, a compilation of chamber works for flute and piano (with TTU Faculty, Lora Deahl, piano) has received outstanding reviews.

"The title track (From Noon to Starry Night by Matthew Santa)...is a wonderful addition to the flute repertoire...Garner's colors, vibrato use, and interpretations are excellent. This interesting, well-produced CD should be in every flutist's record collection." - Flute Talk, April 2005

"gorgeous - flat-out gorgeous...a true artist. It serves me and 'All the Words' EXTREMELY well."
- Dan Welcher, Composer

As an active member of the National Flute Association, Dr. Garner Santa has been a featured performer at the Boston, Atlanta, Phoenix, Dallas and Nashville conventions. She has served as adjudicator and/or coordinator for many NFA events and competitions including the High School Soloist Competition, the NFA Newly Published Music Competition, the NFA Professional Flute Choir Competition, and as NFA Convention Associate Program Chair.

Lisa Garner Santa's versatile programming ranges from the elegant Baroque music of Bach to the jazz-inspired writings of Mike Mower. Her passion for contemporary flute repertoire was sparked over a decade ago by the early flute works of Lowell Liebermann, which was the topic of her dissertation. Since then, she has become a leader in the effort to expand and promote new music by performing and commissioning works from young as well as established composers including Warner Hutchison, Matthew Santa, Mike Mower, Teresa LeVelle, and most recently Peter Fischer.

As a pedagogue, Lisa Garner Santa presents masterclasses throughout the United States and abroad. Recent international exchanges include masterclasses at the Royal College of Music in London, England and Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Presentations and performances at various regional and national conventions include invitations from the Texas Music Educators Association, the Texas Music Teachers Association, the National Association of Wind and Percussion Instructors, and the College Music Society. Her research and pedagogical articles are frequently published in The Flutist Quarterly, Flute Talk, and The Instrumentalist. In recognition of her creative teaching, she was awarded the Texas Tech Big 12 Fellowship as well as the Texas Tech Alumni Association New Faculty Award.

With co-authors Matthew Santa and Thomas Hughes, Lisa Garner Santa developed the Flute/Theory Workout, a method that efficiently introduces full-range scalar and chordal flute technique while introducing music theory fundamentals at the same time. The Workout, which comes with an entertaining accompaniment CD, will be available through Mel Bay Publications in 2006.

Dr. Garner Santa holds performance degrees from West Texas State University, Florida State University, and The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. Her teachers include Helen Blackburn, Sally Turk, Charles DeLaney, and Carol Wincenc.

Molly Barth is described as "ferociously talented" (The Oregonian), Grammy-Award winning flutist Molly Alicia Barth is an active solo, chamber, and orchestral musician, specializing in the music of today. As a founding member of the new music sextet eighth blackbird, Molly toured extensively throughout the world, recorded four CDs with Cedille Records, and was granted the 2000 Naumburg Chamber Music Award and first prize at the 1998 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Currently, as co-founder of the Beta Collide New Music Project, Molly collaborates with individuals from a broad spectrum of disciplines such as music, art, sound sculpture and theoretical physics. Molly is the Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Oregon and has taught at Willamette University and held residencies at the University of Chicago and at the University of Richmond. She plays a Burkart flute and piccolo, and a 1953 Haynes alto flute.

"One of the best things to happen to the UO - and to Oregon music - this year is the arrival of Molly Barth. One of the world's greatest flutists..."
Brett Campbell, The Eugene Weekly, January 29, 2009

"Like a good jazz player, she improvised according to what she got from the other players....Barth was fabulous, again"
David Stabler, The Oregonian, October 19, 2008

"Barth's sculpted lyricism was intensely moving...."
Tom Manoff, Register Guard, October 23, 2008

"Barth's virtuosic ability created fluttering trills, sudden fortes, and soothing legato lines that were flat out remarkable."
James Bash, Northwest Reverb, September 24, 2008

"Her high spirit was contagious, her legato like liquid and her ornaments glittering...."
James McQuillen, The Oregonian, July 14, 2007

"The ferociously talented flutist Molly Alicia Barth gave an electric performance of Bernard Rands' 'Memo 4,' effortlessly leaping across registers and conveying both a sense of intense dialogue and barely contained anxiety in the many piercingly high passages."
James McQuillen, The Oregonian, November 20, 2006

"highly polished techniques and evident depth of feeling for a variety of contemporary styles, as well as a sartorial casualness and open manner"
Allan Kozinn, New York Times, November 23, 1998