About Anne Decker-Beck

Anne Decker-Beck

I graduated Bachelor of Music, Applied Music, Flute Performance, from Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music in Berea, Ohio.   I achieved the following successes during baccalaureate studies: Winner of the B-W Concerto Competition as a Junior, Principal flutist B-W Symphony Orchestra, Flutist with the 50th, 51st and 52nd Bach Festival Orchestras, including the 50th Anniversary Bach Festival Kennedy Center broadcast tour on NPR and PBS. 

I was the featured artist performing in the premiere Focus Festival of Contemporary Music. Wilma Salisbury of The Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote: 
"Flutist Anne Decker produces full romantic sonoroties and flowing lines".

I was privileged to study flute with William Hebert of the Cleveland Orchestra, Ervin Monroe of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and Adrian Brett of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. I auditioned and was accepted for post graduate study with Trevor Wye, Royal Northern College of Music, in Manchester, England. 

I studied piano from the age of five including a long tenure of development under the tutelage of Arvi Sinka, Ph.D.,  of the Arvi Sinka Piano Studio in Troy, Michigan.  Dr. Sinka has been my gracious mentor and pedagogy instructor.

I am the Coordinator for Student Achievement Testing, Woodwind Division, Metropolitan Detroit Musicians League. I develop the woodwind testing curricula for annual sequential testing in performance, technique, sight reading, theory and aural awareness.

I perform in recitals throughout the year in Metropolitan Detroit.

I currently serve on these Boards of Directors:
   Paint a Miracle, Rochester, MI
Community Outreach Liaison
Southeast Michigan Flute Association
Vice President  2013-2015
Metropolitan Detroit Musicians League
Student Achievement Testing Chair, Woodwind Division
 

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