Rachel Braude

Grammy-award winning flutist and piccoloist, Rachel Braude, has been on the faculty of Northeastern University for the past five years. She is also the Senior Lecturer in Flute at Dartmouth College, where she has taught for the past eight years. Rachel previously served as Lecturer in Flute at the New England Conservatory of Music (Preparatory Division), Rhode Island College, the University of Rhode Island, and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. In addition to her teaching career, Rachel is an active performer all over New England. She is a member of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Philharmonic, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Odyssey Opera. Rachel can also frequently be found performing with the Boston Ballet Orchestra and the Boston Lyric Opera; and on occasion as a guest with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Boston Pops Esplanade. She is the former piccolo player of the St. Louis Symphony. Rachel regularly performs in every role in the flute section, from principal to piccolo, and has appeared as a concerto soloist with various orchestras on both instruments as well. Rachel is a long-time member of the prestigious Arizona Music Fest and in the summers can be found performing with the Landmarks Orchestra, at the New Hampshire Music Festival, and teaching at the Greenwood Music Camp (Junior Division). She also enjoys playing chamber music at the Monadnock Music Festival and with Collage New Music. Rachel holds a BM from the New England Conservatory of Music, a Graduate Diploma from The Studio, in Kent, England with Trevor Wye, and a Diploma from the Juilliard School (Pre-College Division). She can be heard in dozens of recordings with BMOP on the Chandos, Naxos, and BMOP labels. Rachel is married to the violinist and Concertmaster Charles Dimmick. Their daughter, Chloe, is also an accomplished young violinist. The family’s two cats, Bod and Silas, somehow manage to thrive despite their noisy household, although they draw the line when Rachel practices the piccolo.