Wisconsin Flute Festival

media release: The Wisconsin Flute Festival brings together flutists and music lovers of all ages for a fun and educational event celebrating everything flute. The Wisconsin Flute Festival is appropriate for participants of all ages. The 2025 Festival will feature Grammy Award-winning artist Rhonda Larson, Michael Morton, specializing in jazz and R&B, and Andra Bohnet on Irish flute.

Join us for interactive sessions, performances, masterclasses, competitions, and an exhibit hall! Scholarship support is available for individuals in need.

Interactive Sessions – Rhythm Rubrics with Rhonda Larson; Flute Choir Reading Session with Andra Bohnet, Low Flutes Petting Zoo, Ethnic Flutes with Rhonda Larson, Artistry Class with Rhonda Larson, Practicing Efficiently with Jae Hyun Moon, Jazz and R&B with Michael Morton, Mind-Body Exercises for Flutists with Cori Hall, & Irish Flute Technique with Andra Bohnet.

Performances

- Concert – Rhonda Larson featured guest artist

- Concert – Andra Bohnet featured guest artist

- Flute Ensemble Performances

Closing Concert – Michael Morton, free and open to the public at 6:30 pm

The Festival will be held in-person on April 13 at the WYSO Center for Music in Madison. Registration for the Festival is now open. Registration ranges from $40 to $50, and $10 for non-Flutist family members. A 20% discount is available for groups of 5 or more – contact us to learn more. We invite you to join us!

Grammy winning flutist Rhonda Larson presents Winds of the World. Rhonda is a worldwide performer, recording artist, and composer. Her world flutes merge the most soulful elements of sacred, classical, folk, Celtic, and ethnic music.

Pearl Flute artist Michael Morton, currently with the Nashville Jazz Workshop Quartet, has recorded seven albums. He can be heard on movie soundtracks, and has performed with or for The Los Angeles Opera, Placido Domingo, Whitney Houston, Terrance Blanchard, Rihanna, Terrance Howard, and Spike Lee.

Andra Bohnet, performs and records on flutes of all shapes and sizes (classical, traditional simple system, baroque and a variety of ethnic instruments), as well as whistle and Celtic harp. She is Professor of Flute at University of South Alabama and the principal flutist with Mobile Symphony Orchestra. Andra also plays with her newest band, 2nd Breakfast, and Liminal, a flute and percussion duo.