Performance Biography
Lish is serving as principal flutist with the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra for the 2008-2009 season. Masterworks concerts, with Lish as piccoloist, were broadcast via Philadelphia's WHYY radio 91 FM in October 2005/2006 and February/December 2007. She is flutist with the wind quintet 5 for Dinner and Play By Heart Ensemble and has performed on both flute and piccolo with the Harrisburg and Lancaster Symphonies, Riverside Symphonia, Strauss Symphony of America, Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, Masterworks Orchestra, Center City Opera Theater, Rittenhouse Orchestra and Paramus Community Orchestra.
Lish won a flute/piccolo position with the Rome Festival Orchestra via international audition and was a scholarship recipient to the International Foundation for Artistic and Musical Excellence Festival and the C. W. Post Chamber Music Festival at Long Island University. She was also chosen to be an alternate at the Texas Music Festival. In May 2007 Lish was a finalist/runner up in the Opera Company of Philadelphia's auxiliary flute/piccolo audition.
As an avid wind symphony advocate she is a member of the Eastern Wind Symphony (Dr. William H. Silvester, music director) and can be heard on at least 14 CDs. Many pieces are broadcast on Philadelphia (Temple 90.1), Princeton (WPRB 103.3) radio stations and the ensemble has been included in the radio program, Wind and Rymthm (KWTU Classic 88.7 Tulsa). In the spring of 2006, Lish and fellow flutist David DiGiacobbe performed a new arrangement (by Nancy and Bill Silvester) of Doppler's Andante and Rondo for two flutes with the ensemble. That recording was officially released on the CD Wind Tableaux in Fall 2007. She has performed and recorded under the direction of Alfred Reed, Clark McAllister and other prominent wind symphony conductors.
Lish has also kept a close relationship with the Wind Symphony of Southern NJ (Dr. Bob Streckfuss, music director) and the Tri-County Symphonic Band (Dr. Ron Willoughby, music director), two important ensembles serving south Jersey.
Opera/Musical theatre performances include: Candide, West Side Story, Oliver!, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Anything Goes, Once Upon a Mattress, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Oklahoma!, Ragtime, Annie Get Your Gun, Fiddler on the Roof, Music Man in Concert, Miss Saigon, Once on This Island, Kiss Me Kate, Mystery of Edwin Drood, Picture of Dorian Gray (Liebermann), Ballad of Baby Doe, La Boheme (chorus) and others.
Lish is a member of AFM Local 77 and National Flute Association and has held membership with the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia and the New York Flute Club.
Current Equipment: 1955 Silver Handmade Powell Flute, Martin Gordon Gold/Emanuel Silver Headjoints, Grenadilla Kowalewsky Palanca Baroque Flute, Wood Haynes Piccolo, Silver Rudall Carte Alto, Jupiter Bass.
