Ashley Stanley FLUTE

Ashley Stanley is a Chicago based flutist, improviser, and composer with special interest in contemporary music, chamber music, and integrative arts.  

As a chamber musician, Stanley has performed as a member of the West Michigan New Music Collective, Girlnoise, Four Corners Ensemble, and Khemia Ensemble. She has also performed orchestrally with the Ann Arbor Camerata Orchestra (re: classical) and Apex Contemporary Ensemble. Stanley held chamber music residencies at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Tufts University, and Avaloch Farm Institute. She has performed for composers Julia Wolfe, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Nina Shekhar, David Biedenbender, John Luther Adams, Kristin Kuster, Derek Bermel, Marc Mellits, Andy Akiho, and Alvin Lucier. 

Stanley was invited as a fellow for the Bang on a Can Summer Festival as a part of an artist residency at Mass MoCA, where she premiered and performed several works alongside members of the Bang on a Can All-Stars. She also enjoyed touring the Northern Danish fjords as a musician with the Thy Chamber Music Festival. Stanley’s own work, Night Sketches for solo flute, live processing, and stereo playback, was featured on NPR stateside and was performed extensively through out U.S National Parks as a part of a commission project for Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble’s “Theres Music in our Parks." 

Stanley has played in venues and on series such as Baltimore’s Mobtown Modern music series, New Music Detroit’s Strange and Beautiful Music, Detroit Institute of the Arts Friday Night Live!, at The Atlas in Washington D.C, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra pre-concert series, Michigan State University, Bolling Green University's New Music Festival, the National Flute Association Convention, and as an improviser with Ann Arbor Danceworks.

Stanley earned graduate degrees in Flute Performance, Chamber Music, and Educational Studies from the University of Michigan Ann-Arbor. She received a Bachelor of Music Performance from Grand Valley State University. Her primary teachers include Amy Porter, Christopher Kantner, Jeffery Zook and Brandy Hudelson. She also studied jazz and composition with Dennis Wilson and Bill Ryan. She has performed in masterclasses for flutists Robert Dick, Camilla Hoitenga, Robert Langevin and Carol Wincenc.

In addition to her work as a musician, Stanley is deeply committed to providing high-quality, equitable education to young people. She is an elementary public school teacher on the Northshore of Chicago, where she plays for enjoyment with her talented teaching colleagues. She also enjoys reading, backpacking, and training for long-distance endurance races.
 

 

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