Performance Biography
Lish served as acting principal flutist with the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra for the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 seasons (prior to the disbandment of the orchestra) and was piccoloist with the orchestra beginning in 2005. 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, Lancaster and Ambler Symphonies, Reading Symphony, Riverside Symphonia, Strauss Symphony of America, Sheep Island Ensemble, Orchestra Society of Philadelphia, Masterworks Orchestra, Center City Opera Theater, Rittenhouse Orchestra, Video Games Live Orchestra, and the 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. Lish was a finalist/runner up in the Opera Company of Philadelphia's auxiliary flute/piccolo audition. She recorded for a NASCAR documentary on bass flute and piccolo and recorded a piccolo piece with the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra.
She began playing with the Eastern Wind Symphony in 1999 (Todd Nichols and Adam Warshafsky, conductors-Dr. William H. Silvester, music director emeritus) and is currently piccoloist with the ensemble. Lish can be heard on at least 14 CDs of symphonic band music which are often broadcast on Philadelphia (Temple 90.1) and Princeton (WPRB 103.3) radio stations. The ensemble has been included on the radio program Wind and Rhythm (KWTU Classic 88.7 Tulsa) as well. In the spring of 2006 Lish and 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 enjoyed her time performing 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 southern New Jersey.
In the summer of 2009 Lish soloed with the Teaneck Community Band as part of their five week summer concert series under the direction of Evan Cooper. Rhapsody for Flute and Band (Bulla) and The Carnival of Venice for Flute and Band were on the program for that concert! She will perform the Rhapsody in 2012 with the Wilkes University Civic Band under the direction of Dr. Phil Simon.
In August 2009 Lish performed on bass flute with the Times Square Flute Orchestra as part of the National Flute Association's annual convention and helped break the Guinness World Record for world's largest flute ensemble under the leadership of Sir James Galway.
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, the National Flute Association, the New York Flute Club, Pocono Flute Society, and has held membership with the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia.
Current Equipment: 14k Handmade Powell Flute, 9k Martin Gordon Headjoint, Kowalewsky Grenadilla Palanca Traverso, Grenadilla/Cocuswood Haynes Piccolo, Silver Rudall Carte Alto, Jupiter Bass.
