About Candace Keach

Candace Keach, originally from Athens, Georgia was principal flutist with the Macon Symphony for thirty years.  She is currently principal flutist with the Carroll Symphony Orchestra.  A graduate of the University of Georgia with post-graduate studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, she has been a featured soloist with the Macon Symphony as well as with summer music festivals in Italy, Switzerland, and France.  She has also been featured with the Atlanta Woodwind Quintet in the nationally syndicated radio broadcast, “Performance Today”.  She has performed with the Atlanta Boy Choir in concerts throughout Europe, America and Canada including at St. Peter’s in Rome, St. Mark’s in Venice, the Tyne Cathedral in Prague, the Great Hall of the Philharmonic in St. Petersburg, the Musikverein in Vienna, and Chartres Cathedral in Paris.  She became principal flutist with the Atlanta Ballet and the Atlanta Chamber Orchestra soon after moving to Atlanta in the 1980’s.  Her orchestral experience has also included performances with the Atlanta, Birmingham and Greenville Symphonies and the National Touring Company’s “Phantom of the Opera”.  Candace is flute instructor at The Westminster Schools and at Spelman College and is in demand for masterclasses at high schools and middle schools across the Atlanta metro area.  Her private students have consistently performed successfully for Allstate, AYWS, ASYO, MYSO, and at Brevard, Interlochen & Tanglewood Summer Institutes.  Her own studies included private lessons with the legendary and renown flutist, Marcel Moyse.