Judith Ormond
Flute
Judith Ormond has recently retired after 30 years as piccolo player with the Milwaukee Symphony, a position she has
held since 1981. Highlight of her career with the MSO include tours of Europe, Japan and Cuba, and chamber music
collaborations with many fine musicians. She continues her position as principal flutist with the Milwaukee Chamber
Orchestra. As a member of Bach Babes, an all-female baroque ensemble, Ms. Ormond is featured on a recording of Telemann
Flute and Oboe concerti.
Ms. Ormond's career on piccolo began with the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina:
a position she held for four years, until becoming principal flute with that orchestra.
Prior to Milwaukee, she was second flutist in both North Carolina and Oregon symphony orchestra.
Ms. Ormond studied with Maurice Sharp and William Hebert in Cleveland, John Wummer at Mannes College of Music
in New York (BS degree) and Britton Johnson at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore (MM degree). She has also
participated in master classes with Marcel Moyse, Jean-Pierre Rampal and Harvey Sollberger. Ms. Ormond has held
numerous teaching positions, enjoys giving talks about the orchestra and for a number of years she wrote a column
for the Milwaukee Symphony program book on the lives of musicians. This is her fourth summer with AYO. In retirement
Ms. Ormond will continue teaching and purse a career as a personal trainer.
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