Flutist  |  Founder  |  Executive Director
Deirdre McArdle is the daughter of the noted Irish-American modernist painter, Patrick McArdle. She has served on the Flute and Chamber Music faculty at Bowdoin College and Manhattan School of Music, her Alma Mater and has performed and given masterclasses in the U.K., Israel, Italy, France, Taiwan, Japan and the Republic of Ireland. With a background in arts administration, education and theater, Deirdre is the founder of the Winter Harbor Music Festival in Maine and the co-founder of Harbor Music, a local program of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.  An avid chamber music player, she has given notable performances with members of the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the American Symphony Orchestra and has premiered compositions dedicated to her by Tibor Serly, Elliott Schwartz, David Loeb, Robert Rohe, Daniel Paget and Phillip Thomas. Of her playing, Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize winning music critic of the New York Times, wrote that she “…produces an unusually full and lustrous sound from her flute…alternately languorous and darting,” in a program that was, “a brilliant challenge for a virtuosic flutist.” She is currently a member of the executive board of the New York Flute Club, local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians and the American Society for Composers and Publishers (ASCAP)


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