Emily Hoppe McKay
Flute
Emily.McKay@nau.edu
(928) 523-3875
Building 37, Room 111
Emily Hoppe McKay is Assistant Professor of Flute at Northern Arizona University, principal flutist of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, and a member of the Kokopelli Chamber Winds. Formerly, Ms. McKay served as Associate Instructor of Flute and Chancellor's Doctoral Fellow at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, where she performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Indiana Symphony Orchestra, and the Indiana University Summer Festival Orchestra.
In addition, Ms. McKay has recorded as the piccoloist of Philharmoia à Vent on the Klavier Records label. She is an active recitalist and her recent collaborations include concerts with guitarist Espen Jensen at Indiana University and the Waldron Center for the Performing Arts in Bloomington, IN. Ms. McKay has presented master classes at Penn State University, Elizabethtown College, and Tyler Junior College in Tyler, TX. Ms. McKay is an active member of the National Flute Association and serving as the Assistant Program Chair for the 2006 NFA Convention held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and as a researcher for the Grant Writing Committee of the NFA.
Previous to her experience in Indiana, Ms. McKay served as Associate Instructor of Flute at Elizabethtown College and York College of Pennsylvania, and as Interim Instructor of Flute at West Chester University. She performed with the Harrisburg Opera Association, Lancaster Opera Company, Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, Altoona Symphony, Penn's Woods Festival Orchestra, and as the featured soloist of the American Wind Symphony Orchestra.
She has served on adjudicating committees for the Music Teacher National Association performing competitions. She has presented workshops for PMEA and is published in American Music Teacher, The Flutist Quarterly, and Flute Talk magazines. Ms. McKay is a graduate of Penn State University, Carnegie Mellon University, and is currently working to complete the Doctor of Music, Flute Performance and Music Literature degree at Indiana University. Her teachers include Thomas Robertello, Jeanne Baxtresser, Alberto Almarza, Jeffrey Khaner, and Eleanor Duncan Armstrong.