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Adrianne Greenbaum, Professor of Flute at MHC and pioneer of the klezmer flute tradition, is a nationally acclaimed flutist and clinician, performing on historical instruments of the 18th and 19th centuries. Her classical training and career ranks among the finest flutists of her time.

As a classical musician, she has performed as soloist and orchestral musician in all of New York’s major concert halls and in many major cities of the US.  She has appeared with such orchestras as New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Berlin Ballet at the Met, the Period Orchestra of the Fairfield Academy, and for many years performed with the New York City Ballet Orchestra.

Her current projects are as the continuing leader of her flute-based klezmer ensemble, “”, and founder of the period instrument trio “L’Uhrovska Baroque” Her newest recording “Farewell to the Homeland: Poyln” was released in summer of ’16, receiving reviews of note for the flute and klezmer communities at large. She is solo flutist with the Wall Street Chamber Players and maintains an active free-lance life in the US and Canada. Greenbaum’s decades-long symphonic career was as Principal of both the New Haven Symphony and Orchestra New England.

She has held faculty positions at Wesleyan and Yale Universities, at Smith College, and currently enjoys giving master classes in klezmer techniques, traverso exploration, and improvisation across genres. She can be heard in recordings on the Koch and Music Masters labels as well as her own solo classical album “Sounds of America” and her other two FleytMuzik records.

Greenbaum is also a published composer (Mozart G major cadenzas) and arranger (F. Doppler’s Andante and Rondo), and her reputation as a historic instrument performer has garnered invitations to perform in the UK, France, Germany, and Austria and throughout the US. Greenbaum received her BM from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and her MM from the Yale School of Music.