FLUTE SOLOIST

Weddings
Church Services
Music Festivals
Bar & Bat Mitzvahs
Private Parties
Corporate Events

Julia Smith Wilhelm is an accomplished flutist, pianist and teacher.

She is a native of Hickory, NC, and a magna cum laude graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne College with a BA in Applied Music.  Her graduate studies were at Appalachian State University, Boone, NC and Jordan College of Fine Arts, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN where she earned a Master of Music in Flute Performance, with a Music History emphasis.

She has studied with Dr. Lynn White, Lenoir-Rhyne College and Appalachian State University; Rebecca Price Arrensen, co-principal flutist and piccoloist, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra; and Valeria Simosko, former principal flutist, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra.

Julia has an extensive background as a performing artist, including weddings, handbell festivals, church events and community recitals.

Previously, she served as Organist/Choirmaster of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Our Saviour, Dallas, NC, and as Director of the Chancel Choir at Mt. Pisgah Lutheran Church, Hickory, NC.

Her awards and activities include:  member of Mu Sigma Epsilon; Faculty Distinction Award, Butler University, 1995; member, National Flute Association; member, National Guild of Piano Teachers; and member, Board of Directors, Queen City Ringers, Charlotte, NC.

She is a former Adjunct Professor of Flute at Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, NC where she taught applied flute students and directed the flute ensemble.  Julia also teaches flute and piano privately.
Julia Smith Wilhelm is an accomplished flutist, pianist and teacher.