Flute
The flute studio's friendly and supportive atmosphere enhances weekly private lessons, studio classes, and collaborative orchestral excerpt classes with master teacher Alexa Still. She has a worldwide reputation and decades of varied performance experience as a soloist, orchestral principal flutist, chamber musician, contemporary music specialist, and recording artist.

Program Facts
- Program Type: Major, Performance Diploma, Artist Diploma
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- Bachelor of Music (BM)
- Performance Diploma (PDip)
- Artist Diploma (ADip)
- Division: Winds, Brass, and Percussion
Division Director
Michael Rosen,Professor of Percussion
Contact
- Alexa Still, Professor of Flute
- 440-775-8260
- Alexa.Still@oberlin.edu
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Flute Repair
Alexa Still, an authorized installer of Straubinger pads, offers a flute stripping and emergency repair course in which students are trained to make adjustments and diagnose problems themselves. They disassemble and reassemble their instruments, diagnose mechanical problems, and perform the simple “clean, oil, and adjust’’ regular maintenance that professional quality flutes require. Advanced students also have the option of working on pads. Flutes are available for loan to students whose own instruments are being repaired.

Flute Faculty
Conservatory faculty maintain active performance schedules while remaining accessible and committed to their students. Individual instruction is paramount to helping students develop their mechanical, technical, stylistic, psychological, and musical skills.
“I try to encourage my students to think about what they want to do, get them thinking on a bigger scale, and help them with all the tools they need to make themselves excellent.”
Alexa Still, NEA Conservatory Associate Professor of Flute
Master Classes
Weekly studio classes and regular master classes for the flute studio involve mock orchestral auditions, reinforcement of fundamentals, chamber music performances, solo recital performances, guest master classes, and many other types of performance opportunities. We encourage students to support their colleagues with positive and constructive feedback. Oberlin cultivates a learning environment in which students are open to making mistakes without consequence in larger public performances.

Flute News
Summer at Oberlin: Home Edition
June 17, 2020
A Flutist’s French Connection
May 15, 2020
Oberlin Conservatory Claims Record Number of Fulbright Finalists
May 13, 2020
Life After Oberlin
Oberlin’s flutist alumni hold major positions in orchestras, contemporary music, and in teaching positions around the world. Others in our alumni ranks choose to change the world in non-music professions.
Notable Oberlin Alumni
Hannah Hammel ’15
Principal Flute, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
Jiatong (Kathy) Ma ’15
Second Flute, Beijing Symphony Orchestra
Erica Zheng ’17
PHD student in chemical biology at Harvard University, flutist in Harvard's Dudley Orchestra for graduate students