Dr. Linda Kirkpatrick

Flute Cocktail Director
2016 - Present

Dr. Linda Kirkpatrick is a faculty member at McDaniel College in Westminster, MD. She is the flute professor, directs the Concert Band, and is the Music Director/Conductor of the Westminster Symphony Orchestra. She was the director/founder of the McDaniel Summer Music Camp, which concluded in 2018 after 33 years.

Degrees include a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Flute Performance from the University of North Texas, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Flute Performance/Pedagogy and Instrumental Conducting from the University of Maryland. She is a three-time winner/participant of the National Flute Association’s Professional Flute Choir Competition and has led flute choir reading sessions at NFA conventions. She continues in the position of Vice President of the Flute Society of Washington, D.C., remains an active participant in the annual Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention, and is currently the coordinator of the Flute Choir Showcase, held during the annual convention.

She has fifteen published flute choir arrangements with flute.net, SilverWinds Publishing Co., and ALRY Publications/United Music and Media Publishers.
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Professional affiliations include membership in Women Band Directors International, Maryland Music Educators Association, Maryland Band Directors Association, the National Flute Association, and the Flute Society of Washington. She has served as an adjudicator for county and state band festivals, county and solo/ensemble festivals, and all-state band auditions in Maryland.