Anthea Kechley has performed with Emmanuel Music since 2022 and as an orchestral musician has appeared locally with New Bedford Symphony, Cape Symphony, SoundIcon, Cape Ann Symphony, and was formerly Principal Flutist of theMassachusetts Symphony Orchestra in Worcester. Before arriving in greaterBoston, she performed regularly with Sarasota Orchestra and Ballet, FloridaGrand Opera, and Atlantic Classical Orchestra, among others. She has collaborated as a chamber musician with Williams Chamber Players, New YorkCity-based Mimesis Ensemble, and Camerata Ighme in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Anthea has appeared as a soloist with Eureka Ensemble performing J.S. Bach, Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B Minor, BWV 1067 and with The Chelsea Symphony in NYC performing Franz Doppler’s Fantasie Pastorale Hongroise.

Anthea has held faculty positions at Williams College and the El Sistema-inspired Miami Music Project, and is currently on the faculty at Brookline Music School and the Concord Conservatory of Music, where she also curates and manages the concert series.

A recipient of numerous prizes and awards as a student, Anthea received her education at Aspen Music Festival and School under the tutelage of Nadine Asin, Bonita Boyd and Martha Aarons, Brevard Music Center with Dr. Elizabeth Buck, and Texas Music Festival with Aralee Dorough of the Houston Symphony. She holds a Master of Music degree in Flute Performance from Mannes College The NewSchool for Music, where she studied with Keith Underwood, and a Bachelor ofMusic with Honors in Flute Performance from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in the U.K. as a student of Jonathan Rimmer.

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