Aralee Dorough, Flute

Aralee Dorough is Principal Flutist of the Houston Symphony. She received her Bachelors degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1983 as a student of Robert Willoughby. She continued her studies with Thomas Nyfenger at the Yale School of Music until winning the position of 2nd flute with the Houston Symphony in 1985. In 1991 she became the orchestra’s principal flutist.

Aralee appears regularly as a soloist with the orchestra. Recently she performed the Mozart Concerto in G with Music Director Hans Graf. In 1993 she recorded the same concerto with Christoph Eschenbach and the Houston Symphony for the IMP label. She performed the world premiere of Bright Sheng’s Flute Moon, commissioned by the Houston Symphony, in a concert broadcast on PBS. She has appeared with harpist Marisa Robles and baroque specialist Nicholas McGegan.

Aralee has toured extensively throughout Europe and Japan, and performed at Chicago’s prestigious Ravinia Festival, as a member of the Houston Symphony Chamber Players, often in collaboration with Christoph Eschenbach at the piano.

Aralee is on the faculty of the Festival-Institute at Round Top and the Texas Music Festival.”