Spotlight | Associate Principal Flute

Shannon Finney

Shannon Finney is the Associate Principal Flutist for the Kansas City Symphony. Additionally, she performs with and is a former Artistic Advisor for the local chamber ensemble, Summerfest. Shannon’s summer work extends to Door County, Wisconsin, as a faculty member at Birch Creek Music Center. A past winner of the National Flute Association’s “Piccolo Artist Competition”, Shannon was also awarded a fellowship at Tanglewood in the early part of her career. She has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, and the Chicago Sinfonietta. Her teachers included Walfrid Kujala, Mary Stolper, and Karla Flygare, and her degrees are from Northwestern University. Shannon enjoys the culinary arts, reading, traveling, and many outdoor activities. An adventurer at heart, she spent a month in Nepal in 2014, including two weeks trekking in the Himalayas and reaching Annapurna Base Camp. In recent years she has enjoyed exploring Paris for the first time, biking in the Loire Valley, and whitewater rafting with her dad down the entire 280 miles of the Grand Canyon. The summer of 2018 found her joining her parents “glamping” on safari in eastern Africa.