UL Lafayette Flute Day 2026
For Middle School, High School, University, and Community Flutists!
featuring
Dr. Lisa Jelle
Professor of Flute
Capital University Conservatory of Music
Columbus, Ohio
Saturday, March 14, 2026
9:30am-6:00pm
Angelle Hall
University of Louisiana Lafayette, School of Music
It’s FREE!
Schedule:
9:30am – Registration Angelle Lobby
10am – Warm-up/Tone &Technique class
11am – Emergency Flute Repair Class
12pm – Lunch on your own
1-3pm – Masterclass with Dr. Lisa Jelle
3-4 – Flute Choir reading session
4-4:45 – Visit Exhibits
5:00 – Guest Artist Recital
Exhibits by:
Flute Specialists
Lisa A. Jelle is Professor of Flute and Head of the Instrumental Area at Capital University, Principal Flute of the Central Ohio Symphony and the Ashland Symphony, Piccolo with the Lancaster Festival Orchestra, and an Associate Musician with the Columbus Symphony. She also enjoys frequent solo performances with Vaughn Wiester’s Famous Jazz Orchestra, and performed Mariano Morales’ jazzy Concerto for Flute and Orchestra with the Central Ohio Symphony in 2022. Winning national auditions for and performing as a member of the Honolulu Symphony, the Austin Symphony, and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Lisa was also a member of the Breckenridge Music Festival Chamber Orchestra in her native Colorado for 20 summers.
Dr. Jelle has released four albums: Bolling and Beyond: Jazz-Inspired Flute (2019); A Chamber Jazz Christmas (2016); Mark Flugge Remembered: Jazz Originals & Standards (2015); and Waltz into Madness (2012). These feature compositions by/with her late husband, jazz pianist Mark Flugge, as well as with Capital’s QuintEssential Winds faculty woodwind quintet, the PANdemonium4 Flute Quartet, the Inspirare Duo, and the Famous Jazz Orchestra. She may be heard as well on the Capstone release Resonant Edges, performing Paul Osterfield's "Jagged Edges" on piccolo, with pianist Dianne Frazer. Lisa also led a consortium of professional flutists in commissioning and premiering Osterfield’s Silver Fantasy for Solo Flute and Symphonic Winds.
Recent National Flute Association Annual Conventions performances with PANdemonium4 and Karl F. Kraber were in Atlanta, Phoenix, Chicago, Orlando, and Minneapolis, as well as with Ali Ryerson and the NFA Jazz Flute Big Band in D.C. Dr. Jelle has given three separate international performance and teaching tours in Germany, Hungary, and England.
Lisa is Founder and Director of the 501(c)3 nonprofit Mark Flugge Memorial Fund, which commissions new arrangements of Mark's compositions, sponsors the Capital University Mark Flugge Jazz Award, and coordinates the Annual Mark Flugge Tribute Jazz Concert. Dr. Jelle's teachers include Leone Buyse, Walfrid Kujala, Anne Diener Zenter, and Karl F. Kraber. Her degrees are from Rice University, The University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Northern Colorado. www.lisajelle.com