Biography
One of the most highly regarded American flutists of her generation, Leone Buyse has pursued a multidimensional career as a performer, recording artist, educator, and speaker. In 1993 she relinquished her principal positions with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops to pursue a more active solo and teaching career after 22 years as an orchestral musician. A former member of the San Francisco Symphony and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, she has appeared as soloist on numerous occasions with those orchestras and with the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Utah Symphony, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in Mexico City, and l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva, Switzerland. She has performed with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players throughout Europe and Japan, with the Tokyo, Juilliard, and Brentano String Quartets, in recital with Jessye Norman and Yo-Yo Ma, and at many festivals, including Aspen, Sarasota, Norfolk, and Domaine Forget (Quebec).
The only American prizewinner in the 1969 Geneva International Flute Competition, Ms. Buyse has presented recitals and masterclasses across the United States and in Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia. Her solo recordings have appeared on the Crystal, Boston Records, Albany, and C.R.I. labels and she may be heard as principal flutist on recordings of the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and the San Francisco Symphony for the Philips, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Victor, and Sony Classical labels. With her husband, clarinetist Michael Webster, she co-founded the Webster Trio, which has recorded for Crystal Records and for the Japanese labels Camerata Tokyo and Nami.
Ms. Buyse is now Professor Emerita of Flute at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where she taught for 26 years. She has also taught at the University of Michigan, the New England Conservatory, Boston University, the Tanglewood Music Center, and as a visiting professor at the Eastman School of Music. Her former students hold positions at major universities and in many major orchestras, including the symphony orchestras of Boston, San Francisco, Houston, St. Louis, Kansas City, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Toronto; the Minnesota Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, the New Zealand Symphony, the Adelaide Symphony, the Singapore Symphony, and the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.
Also an accomplished pianist, Ms. Buyse served for two summers as a collaborative pianist at Jean-Pierre Rampal’s master classes in Nice, France. An active member of the National Flute Association, she received the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 in recognition of outstanding contributions to the flute community worldwide.
SPECIALTIES:
Managing TMJ
Audition preparation
Performance anxiety
Mozart style
All solo repertoire, especially Paris Conservatory works
Orchestral excerpts
LANGUAGES:
English, French
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