Janet Arms

Education

MM, The Juilliard School

BM, The Hartt School, University of Hartford

A charismatic and versatile musician, Janet Arms is an orchestral, chamber and solo flutist living and working in the New York Metropolitan Area. She has been a member of the New York City Opera orchestra since 1988 and has performed and recorded with the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Ballet and Metropolitan Opera. Ms. Arms also performed with the St. Louis Symphony as guest principal flutist in the US and throughout Europe, and with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Boston, at Tanglewood and on tour. She had a long-standing association with the Bard Festival Orchestra and the American Symphony Orchestra, and has worked with the NYC Ballet, American Ballet Theater, New Jersey Symphony, and on Broadway in The King and I, Finding Neverland and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Janet Arms made her recital debut at Carnegie Hall as a prizewinner of the Concert Artists International competition while completing her Master’s degree at Juilliard.

Ms. Arms is a Senior Artist Teacher and Co-chair of Chamber Music at The Hartt School, and was honored with the University of Hartford Anchor Award for outstanding and distinguished alumni. Ms. Arms is a faculty member at the Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy - PRISMA - in Powell River, BC where she has taught every June since 2003. In addition to PRISMA, Janet Arms has spent several summers in Brazil, teaching and performing with the faculty of the renowned Festival Eleazar de Carvalho in Fortaleza, and has performed in the St. George International Music Festival in Greece.

An active performer in commercial recording in NYC, Ms. Arms can be heard on a number of film documentaries for PBS, including The Jewish Americans, The Kennedy Years, and The Roosevelt Years, all scored by Michael Bacon.

Ms. Arms’ chamber music career has included appearances with her NYC Opera colleagues at Lincoln Center, performances at the Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival, with the Concordia Chamber Players, the New York Chamber Soloists, and appearances at PRISMA with her colleagues from the Chicago Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, LA Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, and Victoria Symphony Orchestra.

She has presented masterclasses, solo and chamber recitals across the northeastern United States as well in China, including the cities of Beijing, Wuhan, and Hangzhou.

Her latest solo recording, New Heartbeats, features recent flute repertoire written by her distinguished Hartt composition faculty colleagues, Robert Carl and Larry Alan Smith. It features three works especially written for Janet; River’s Bend for Flute Duo written by Robert Carl and performed with her NYC Opera colleague, John McMurtery, Scat for flute quartet and Ti seguo...Mi segui for two flutes both written by Larry Alan Smith.