New York City, New York USA

Stephanie Mortimore has held the position of Piccoloist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 2000. During the 2008-09 season, she will serve as Acting Principal Flute. Prior to her tenure with the Met, Stephanie was Principal Flutist of the Portland Symphony Orchestra and an active freelancer throughout New England, as well as around the country. She has performed with many orchestras including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra.

Stephanie has won numerous distinctions, including earning top honors in the 1998 Myrna Brown Competition, resulting in a concerto performance with the Dallas Chamber Orchestra; the 1996 James Pappoutsakis Competition; and the 1995 Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Competition.

An active recitalist, Stephanie gave her Weill Recital Hall debut in 2007. She also performs frequently with the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson, Wyoming and the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Orchestra series at Carnegie Hall under the direction of James Levine.

Stephanie received her Master’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and her Bachelor’s from DePaul University. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she also spent a year studying at the Conservatoire de Genève in Switzerland. Her teachers have included Geralyn Coticone, Isabelle Giraud, Paula Robison, Fenwick Smith and Mary Stolper. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Paul, a journalist, and their two adorable parrots (each of them a self-professed music critic!).