Alicia Poot is a freelance flutist in Chicago. She currently serves as principal flutist for the Pine Mountain Music Festival’s Symphony Orchestra in the summers and also serves as a substitute player in several orchestras in Michigan and Ohio.

While a graduate student at The University of Akron, she won the university’s concerto competition and was a winner in both the National Flute Association’s Masterclass Competition and in Akron’s Tuesday Musical Club Competition. Past summer festivals include Orford Arts Centre, the Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific, the Rome Festival, and the Julius Baker Masterclasses.

Enthusiastic about contemporary music and experimental chamber music, she is currently involved with a new sound project called “Flag Ceremony.” She has studied at DePaul University, The University of Akron, Western Michigan University, and The Catholic University of America with Mary Stolper, George Pope, Christopher Kantner, Christine Smith, and Alice Weinreb.

She teaches privately all over Chicagoland from Rogers Park to Palos Park and Naperville, and can often be seen riding her bike around the city and on the lakefront path.

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