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Linda Pereksta
Dr. Pereksta is a member of the UM Faculty Woodwind Quintet and the Mockingbird Early Music Ensemble, and has been featured as a concerto soloist with Belle Meade Baroque, the Germantown Symphony Orchestra and the University of Mississippi's Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Pereksta was recently featured as a concerto soloist with Belle Meade Baroque and with the Germantown Symphony Orchestra. She has performed in a flute and clarinet duo for over 10 yeaten with fellow UM faculty member Michael Rowlett, most recently under the name Doubled Air. Together, they have appeared in concerts throughout the U.S., including a performance at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is a member of the UM Faculty Woodwind Quintet and the Mockingbird Early Music Ensemble. Formerly a member of the Memphis and Greenville (SC) Symphony Orchestras, Dr. Pereksta has appeared with Mallarmé Chamber Players, Grammy-nominated jazz artist Nnenna Freelon, Baroque Southeast, Fiori Musicali, Tallahassee Bach Parley, the Iowa Center for New Music and the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra. As a doctoral fellow at Florida State University, she directed the baroque ensemble and taught recorder and baroque flute. Twice a major prizewinner in the National Flute Association's baroque flute artist competition, she is now chair of the NFA's historical flutes committee. Her doctoral treatise, "20th-Century Compositions for Baroque Flute," was a winner in the 2004 NFA call for DM/PhD papers. Dr. Pereksta holds degrees from The University of Iowa, The Peabody Conservatory of Music of The Johns Hopkins University, and Florida State University. Her flute teachers have included Betty Bang Mather, Christopher Krueger, Leone Buyse, Charles DeLaney and Robert Willoughby. She studied orchestral conducting and literature with the late James Dixon.
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Linda Pereksta joined the faculty of The University of Mississippi in 2007,
where she teaches Applied Flute, Flute Methods, Aural Skills and a Liberal
Arts seminar on the life and cultural influence of Beethoven. She also
holds the position of Principal Flute with the Tupelo Symphony Orchestra and
Piccolo with the Arkansas Symphony. Previously, she was a tenured member of
the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans, where she taught Flute
at Tulane University and Music History at the New Orleans Center for
Creative Arts (NOCCA). During her time with the LPO, she performed in the
orchestra's joint concert with the New York Philharmonic, playing under the
batons of James Conlon, Leonard Slatkin and Lorin Maazel.
She can also be heard with the two orchestras on the CD
Our New Orleans, accompanying Randy Newman.