Mary Boodell

Mary Boodell is the Principal Flutist of the Richmond Symphony in Virginia. Praised as one of the city’s “most versatile and venturesome musicians,” she has won acclaim for numerous chamber music collaborations, orchestral solos, and concerto performances. Committed to both historical performance and contemporary music, Ms. Boodell has performed across the US and Europe, including at the Hollywood Bowl, Eastern Music Festival, Wolf Trap, Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, Institute for Sacred Music Yale University, and yearly at the Staunton Music Festival. Since 2004, she has played baroque and modern flutes with the Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia, an organization dedicated to bringing world-class chamber music to Richmond. She received her Bachelor of Music at the Oberlin Conservatory and her Master of Music at Northwestern University, studying with some of the country’s most respected flutists.