The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

Jennifer Bouton (BM 2005) is a second year graduate student at Carnegie Mellon, studying with Jeanne Baxtresser and Alberto Almarza. She received her BM in flute performance from the Peabody Conservatory in May of 2005, where she studied with Marina Piccinini. Before attending Peabody, she studied with Pamela Endsley at the  University of Denver. Previous studies also include summers with Leone Buyse, Walfrid Kujala, Bonita Boyd, and Damien Bursill-Hall. Professional orchestra experience includes playing second flute with the Central City Opera Orchestra in 2004 and The Washington DC Summer Opera Theatre Company in 2005, as well as various freelance work in her hometown of Denver, Colorado. 

Katharine Haynes (MM 2005) teaches flute at the Community Music School of the Lehigh Valley in her native city of Allentown, Pennsylvania. She received her BA in Music Magna Cum Laude with honors from Brown University and a Vordiplom from the Hochschule fuer Musik, Koeln, Abteilung Aachen. It addition to her flute studies, she has also lived in Brazil where she taught high school math.

Lisa Jaklitsch (GPD 2005), a native of Long Island, New York, is currently a member of the Orlando Philharmonic. Lisa has performed at the Tonhalle in Zurich, Switzerland, at Carnegie Hall's Weill Hall in New York City and has been a soloist with the Kingsport Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, the Sound Symphony, and the Hampton Chamber Orchestra. Lisa has won First prize at both the 2003 Elizabeth Harper Vaughn Concerto Competition and the 2002 Byron Hester Young Artist Competition, Second prize at the 2001 Frank Bowen National Flute Competition, and was named alternate winner of the Sorantin Young Artist Award International Competition. She received her B.M. from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (Michel Debost) and her M.M. from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music (Leone Buyse). She has spent summers at Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Banff Festival of the Arts.

 A Native of Seoul, Korea, flutist Hyun-Jung Kwon (BM 2003, MM 2005) is currently pursuing her Performance Diploma  at Boston University. Ms. Kwon was the winner of the Baltimore Music Club Competition in 2005 and a the semi-finalist in the 2004 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition. She was awarded honorable mention in the 2003 Heida Hermanns International Woodwind Competition and was one of the finalists in the 2003 and 2002 National Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist's Competition. She was also awarded the Milton W. King Memorial Certificate. She has participated in the 2004 Pacific Music Festival and the 2003 Aspen Music Festival. Former teachers include Mark Sparks, Emily Skala and Hye-Sook Yang.

Adriana Potoczniak (BM 2006) is originally from Houston, Texas, where she graduated from The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.  In addition to being principal flutist of HSPVA's  Symphony orchestra and wind ensemble, she was principal flutist of the Virtuosi of Houston and Houston Youth Symphony and Ballet. Her former teachers include Aralee Dorough, Christina Jennings, and Dr. September Payne.  Adriana has attended many music festivals, including American Festival for the Arts, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival, Boston University Tanglewood Institute Young Artists' Orchestra, and Colorado College Summer Music Festival.

Anna Rokoczy (MM’04) studied at the Liszt Music College in her native Budapest, Hungary before coming to Peabody as a Fulbright Scholar. She won first prize at the Baltimore Music Club Competition, and was a recipient of the Clinton Lee Arrowood Memorial Prize for her outstanding academic achievement. She has participated in the National Orchestral Institute, the International Festival Institute at Round-Top, Texas and most recently, the Lucerne Festival Academy under the direction of Pierre Boulez.

Kristyn Son began playing the flute at age nine and won many competitions in her native, Korea. Among them are the Seoul Flute Competition, the Ewah Competition, and the Korea Flute Competition. In seventh grade she moved to the United States and studied with Mary Ellen Trefry and Anne Diner Zentner. She has been a soloist with the Seoul Academy Symphony Orchestra, the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra, and most recently, the Landon Symphonette whose competition she won. Ms. Son began her BM studies at the Peabody Conservatory in 2002 , and has since been pursuing her Masters degree at the Manhattan School under Ms. Marya Martin.

 Sita Wittkemper (GPD 2006), a native of Germany, began her flute studies at the age of eight. Her previous teachers include Yo Washio, Professor Andrew Sebald and Professor Grunhild Ott. In 2003, Sita became a member of the Yehudi-Menuhin Foundation and has presented recitals in China, Saudi-Arabia and Europe. Ms. Wittkemper received her Bachelor and Master of Music at the Folkwang University of Essen, Germany.