Claudia Anderson is known for her originality and brilliance as a solo and chamber music performer across the U.S. She is a founding member of the innovative flute duo ZAWA! (with Jill Felber) and the summer flute intensive Passion Flute: Foundations for Creative Performing. Principal flute with the Waterloo-Cedar Falls (IA) Symphony and on the faculty of Grinnell College, during the summer Anderson is flute faculty and Wind Area Head of the College Intensive program at Rocky Ridge Music (www.rockyridge.org) in Colorado. She has taught at the Universities of Iowa and Northern Iowa, Ithaca College and the University of California at Santa Barbara. An active member of the National Flute Association, she recently completed a 4-year term on the NFA’s New Music Advisory Committee and served on the Nominating Committee in 2020-21. Claudia’s newest project, Glass Ceilings, commissioned several high-profile women composers and flutists to write pieces for flute(s) solo and electronic media, with its originating theme of gender inequality expanded to embrace the effects of Covid-19 and racial tensions of 2020. The program of works by Eve Beglarian, Lisa Bost-Sandberg, Allison Loggins-Hull, Ali Ryerson, and Anderson began touring nationally in early 2022 and continues in 2022-’23. As of September 2022, all the commissioned works are published: Eve Beglarian’s music at evbvd.com, Lisa Bost-Sandberg’s with Chromaworks at lisabost.com and justflutes.com, Allison Loggins-Hull at Flutronix.com, Ali Ryerson’s at Theodore Presser Music, and Claudia Anderson’s at alrypublications.com. Anderson’s Glass Ceilings won the NFA’s Newly Published Music Competition in 2023.
 

Jill Felber, flutist, has been hailed for her "beautifully finished performances" by The Detroit News and has been praised by Musical America for her "handsome performance." "Played with flair" (The Los Angeles Times), "the incredible flutist…the dazzling flutist…the radiant flutist Jill Felber" (The Independent, Santa Barbara), is known to excite audiences everywhere. Jill Felber has performed solo recitals, chamber music, and concertos on five continents and has held residencies in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Mexico, France, Switzerland, Brazil, Great Britain and the United States. A tireless promoter of new music, Ms. Felber has inspired many composers to write solo, concerto and chamber works for her and is currently engaged in several commissioning projects. She has premiered over six hundred works for the flute and has released world premiere recordings for Centaur Records, CRI, Neuma Records and Zawa!music. Active in the National Flute Association, Ms. Felber has served as a member of its Board of Directors and served as the 1993 Program Chair for the Boston flute convention. Holding degrees from University of Michigan and Bowling Green State University, Ms. Felber has taught on the faculties of Ohio University, Capital University, and Wright State University. She is currently Professor Emerita of Flute at the University of California, Santa Barbara,  tours with the innovative flute duo ZAWA! and as recitalist with pianist Dianne Frazer.  Her teachers include Keith Bryan, Judith Bentley and Samuel Baron.