Shannon Finney, Associate Principal
B.M., M.M. Northwestern University

Member of the Orchestra Since 1994

Shannon Finney has served as Associate Principal Flutist of the Kansas City Symphony since 1994 and she is currently an Artistic Advisor, Board Member and flutist for the chamber music ensemble Summerfest. In 2006 she began serving as Flute Faculty and Principal Flutist for Birch Creek Music Center. She was the winner of the first National Flute Association Piccolo Artist Competition in 1993 and a fellow at Tanglewood in 1994. Finney has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Her teachers include Walfrid Kujala, Mary Stolper, and Karla Flygare, and she has a Bachelor’s of Music and a Master’s in Music in Flute Performance from Northwestern University.