Your weekly private instruction focuses on performance. With practicing professionals you'll study not only flute, but also have opportunities to study auxiliary instruments such as piccolo and baroque flute. The woodwind department's carefully balanced enrollment ensures you ample performance experience in groups including two orchestras, new music ensemble and chamber music.

Alumni Success

Meet Sally Horak Hundemer

sally horak hundemer

Sally Horak Hundemer is the principal flute of the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra. She earned her BM in flute performance from CIM in 1971 studying with Maurice Sharp. She is a member of the Baroque Artists of Shreveport and the Shreveport Symphony Woodwind Quintet and has performed with orchestras in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Guadalajara and Veracruz, Mexico. 

Flute alumni include:

  • Josue Casillas
  • Virginia Crabtree
  • Sally Horak Hundemer
  • Katrina King
  • Susanna Loewy
  • Madeline Lucas Tolliver
  • James Romeo
  • David Ross
  • Sean Snapp
  • Kimberly Zaleski

Concerts and events

Nov 25 Mon
5:30 pm
First Professional Studies Recital: Stephanie Hile, oboe
Woodwinds, Conservatory Student Recitals
Dec 5 Thu
5:00 pm
Senior Recital: Weichien (Gina) Huang, clarinet
Woodwinds, Conservatory Student Recitals