Francesca Arnone

Flutist Francesca Arnone thrives through creating music in orchestral, solo, chamber music, and college teaching settings. She is Associate Professor at the University of South Florida, and an affiliate faculty member of the Judy Genshaft Honors College. She performs with the Venice Symphony, Palm Beach Opera, and Sarasota Opera orchestras. Former orchestral positions include the Boise Philharmonic and Orquesta Sinfónica de la Universidad de Guanajuato. Her concerto performances in the US and Mexico have presented repertoire ranging from Bach to Chen Yi.

Conversation through music is central to Arnone’s teaching and performing. An advocate of new music, she has premiered works by Amanda Harberg, Hilary Tann, Ingrid Stölzel, Stella Sung, Christina Arakelyan, Cynthia Folio, Michael Frazier, and more. As part of her duo, reACT, with violinist Mikylah Myers, Arnone was a featured performer at the 2016 NY Philharmonic Biennial at National Sawdust. Her solo flute and chamber music recordings on MSR and PARMA have met with critical acclaim.

Before returning to her home state of Florida, Dr. Arnone was on faculty at Boise State, West Virginia, and Baylor universities, and at music festivals in the Americas and Italy. She has been on faculty at flute festivals around the globe, and in such venues as St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Royal Northern College of Music, Royal Conservatory of Madrid, Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, and the Split Academy of Music in Croatia.

Francesca grew up in Port Charlotte, Florida, and studied with major teachers Robert Willoughby, Timothy Day, Julia Bogorad-Kogan, and Christine Nield-Capote. She is active in the National Flute Association, serving as Vice-President/President (2024–2028) and Program Chair (2018), and is a former member of Bobby McFerrin’s Creativity 101 class at San Francisco Conservatory. She is an Alexander Technique Teacher Trainee.