TIA ROPER
As a distinguished soloist and freelance musician, Tia Roper has several credits to her name. They include holding the principal flute positions of the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra, and the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra in Japan. She has also won first prize in the 2004-2005 Artists International Debut Recital Award and has received critical acclaim for her Carnegie Hall recital debut. In addition, Dr. Roper performed as a soloist with the Queens Symphony Orchestra and as a member of the New York City Ballet Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, New England Philharmonic, Long Island Philharmonic, and the Westchester Philharmonic.
She was a student at Juilliard Pre- College where she graduated with honors. Dr. Roper received her Bachelors of Music Degree from the Manhattan School of Music, her Masters Degree in Music Performance from Boston University, and her Doctorate of Musical Arts from Rutgers University where she studied with Bart Feller. Her earlier flute studies were with Bradley Garner, Michael Parloff, and Rie Schmidt.
Dr. Roper is the recipient of the ASCAP Leiber and Stoller Music Scholarship, American Symphony Orchestra League Scholarship, and a 1995 Mica & Richard Hadar Foundation Scholar. She is a winner of both the New York Flute Club Competition and the New York Newsday Young Soloist Competition, and was awarded first-runner up in the Frank Bowen Young Artist Competition in New Mexico. She has given concert performances in Russia, Switzerland, the Barbados, Japan, Venezuela, and throughout the United States.
As an active music educator, Tia Roper is on the faculty of the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts in addition to the Bloomingdale School of Music.
She was a student at Juilliard Pre- College where she graduated with honors. Dr. Roper received her Bachelors of Music Degree from the Manhattan School of Music, her Masters Degree in Music Performance from Boston University, and her Doctorate of Musical Arts from Rutgers University where she studied with Bart Feller. Her earlier flute studies were with Bradley Garner, Michael Parloff, and Rie Schmidt.
Dr. Roper is the recipient of the ASCAP Leiber and Stoller Music Scholarship, American Symphony Orchestra League Scholarship, and a 1995 Mica & Richard Hadar Foundation Scholar. She is a winner of both the New York Flute Club Competition and the New York Newsday Young Soloist Competition, and was awarded first-runner up in the Frank Bowen Young Artist Competition in New Mexico. She has given concert performances in Russia, Switzerland, the Barbados, Japan, Venezuela, and throughout the United States.
As an active music educator, Tia Roper is on the faculty of the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts in addition to the Bloomingdale School of Music.