Michael Alampi is a New York–based flutist and educator whose career spans orchestral, chamber, solo, historical, and contemporary performance. He has performed and freelanced with many of the leading ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic, Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, Radio City Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of New York, and on Broadway productions, among many other regional ensembles in the US and abroad.
Committed to teaching and mentorship, Michael serves on the flute and chamber music faculty at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. His teaching centers on helping students develop a strong technical foundation while discovering their individualized artistic voice and path that reflects their own goals. He has presented masterclasses, recitals, and guest teaching at institutions including Indiana State University, Indiana University Jacobs Academy, Stephen F. Austin State University, University of Arkansas–Fort Smith, and Monmouth Conservatory of Music.
Equally at home in new music and early music, Michael has built a diverse career that bridges the musical past and present. He has premiered hundreds of orchestral, solo, and chamber works while maintaining a deep interest in historical performance and in finding fresh, compelling ways to bring early music to contemporary audiences.
Michael was awarded the Bachelor of Music degree and LRAM Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he was a recipient of the Jo Weinberg Award and ASRAM scholarship. He holds a Master of Music degree from Mannes College under the President’s Scholarship and Performer Diploma from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he held the Barbara and David Jacobs Fellowship.
A prizewinner of the Yamaha Performing Artists Competition, Michael has participated in leading international festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival and School as a Polonsky Foundation Fellow full scholarship recipient and the Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander in Spain, where he performed as principal flute under the late Krzysztof Penderecki.
His principal teachers have included Jasmine Choi, Michael Cox, Elizabeth Mann, Judith Mendenhall, Karen Jones, Linda Chesis, and Michael Parloff, with specialized studies in piccolo with Patricia Morris and Baroque flute with Kathie Stewart and Lisa Beznosiuk.
Michael is an Altus Flutes Performing Artist in collaboration with KHS America. Michael plays on the 18k gold clad flute.