Andrea LeBlanc, flute

photo credit: Jamison Wexler Photography

Andrea LeBlanc is a flutist and innovative arts leader. Praised for her “sensitive and beautiful playing, with crystalline tone and execution” (Early Music America) she has appeared with ensembles including Mercury Houston, Philharmonie Austin, Bach Collegium San Diego, Boston Early Music Festival, Aston Magna, Boston Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society, Blue Hill Bach Festival, and the Big Moose Bach Festival. She has worked with conductors such as Raphaël Pichon, Marin Alsop, Masaaki Suzuki, and Joshua Rifkin, and appears on recordings with Handel and Haydn, Boston Baroque, and Arpeggione Ensemble.

As co-founder and co-director of Arpeggione, Andrea is passionate about creating accessible, immersive community experiences. Equally at home on the concert stage or in schools, libraries, and senior centers, her projects invite audiences to listen with all their senses and take part in the experience.

Performing on flutes with a long memory, she breathes artistry and expression into instruments from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods to the present day. Andrea holds degrees from New England Conservatory and the University of Massachusetts Amherst and pursued further study of the traverso at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. When she is not performing or chasing after her two children, she makes useful and beautiful things out of fabric and yarn.