Emily Senchuk

Emily Senchuk, originally from Detroit, is a versatile woodwind performer and teacher, who performs in a variety of musical styles ranging from symphony orchestra and chamber ensembles to musical theatre and jazz big bands. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Music Composition from Wayne State University where she also studied flute, clarinet, saxophone and piano with Detroit Symphony musicians such as Clement Barone and Theodore Oien, along with top jazz performers in the Metro Detroit area like Chris Collins. Her performance and recording work has called for her to perform on flute, piccolo, alto flute, bass flute, soprano, alto & tenor saxophones, clarinet, pennywhistles, recorder, sopilka, shakuhachi, shakulute, quena, crystal flute and bansuri. Emily has performed with Johnny Mathis, Steve Lawrence & Edie Gourmet, the Fox Theatre Motown Revival, Rick Marghiza, and many ensembles including Torrance and Antelope Valley Symphonies, Torrance Civic Chorale, Orchestra Santa Monica, and has been a featured soloist with the Palisades Symphony.  Emily performs regularly with several ensembles including the Golden State Pops Orchestra, MESTO and the Orchestra Santa Monica Woodwind Quintet, which brings educational programs to hundreds of school children each year and promotes new music by local composers in their chamber music concerts. She also performs with, manages and composes for the Los Angeles Flute Orchestra. Many of her works for flute ensemble have been performed at the National Flute Association’s National Conventions and have received honors in the NFA’s Newly Published Music Competition. Her love of teaching is equal to that of performing and in addition to maintaining a busy private studio, she is a woodwind coach for the DreamWind program at John Adams Middle School and the Elemental Band program  She is also the Director of Operations and Director of the Bergmann Private Lesson Program for Elemental Music

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