Linda Jenkins, M.M.
Lecturer, Flute
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Bio
Linda Jenkins is an ardent collaborative musician and educator recently based in Denton, TX. She frequently collaborates with local composers as a soloist and chamber musician and can be heard playing with various ensembles in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex.
Linda is thrilled to join the music faculty at The University of Texas at San Antonio for Fall 2023 as a part-time Flute instructor, having taught flute at North Central Texas College and a variety of secondary schools in Plano and HEB ISD during her time in Denton. She competed live on a number of regional and national flute stages, including the NFA 2023 Young Artist Competition. Linda has recently been a guest performer at NFA, as well as the MidAtlantic, Atlanta, and Florida Flute Association Festivals. Her teachers have included Terri Sundberg, Molly Barth, Conor Nelson, Elizabeth McNutt, and Amy Taylor.
Linda was named Honorable Mention in the final round of Oklahoma Flute Society’s 2022 Young Artist Convention as well as in the Rochester Flute Association’s Piccolo Artist Competition in 2020. That year she was a finalist in the Central Ohio Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition, although the live final round was cancelled. In 2019 she was named first prizewinner of Atlanta Flute Club’s Carl D. Hall piccolo competition and presented a recital at the AFC’s Annual Flute Convention. Linda has been a guest performer at the biennial Oregon Bach Festival’s Composer Symposium, SEAMUS, University of Oregon’s Musicking conference, Greater Portland Flute Society’s Spring Flute Fair, National Flute Association, and has performed in master classes for Bonita Boyd, Carol Wincenc, Jim Walker, Elizabeth Rowe, and many other notable flutists.
Linda has a B.M. from Bowling Green State University and a M.M. from the University of Oregon where she studied with Dr. Conor Nelson and Professor Molly Barth respectively. She recently completed a Graduate Artist Certificate with Professor Terri Sundberg at the University of North Texas and is pursuing a Doctorate in Music.
Degrees
B.M. Bowling Green State University
M.M. University of Oregon
