Lois Herbine maintains a private teaching studio, giving weekly lessons as well as coaching sessions. Her weekly students have placed in the Philadelphia Flute Society student competitions, have sat in area youth orchestras and have gone onto place in prestigious music conservatories and have musical careers as well as avocations.
A half dozen professional flutists and symphony orchestral piccoloists that have sought Lois out for performance coaching over the last few years, consider her an influential teacher. One such student, Sandra del Cid-Davies now holds the piccolo position with the Kennedy Center Orchestra. Another, Amy I-Yun Tu, became a Powell Artist in 2018.
Lois offers one time flute and piccolo sessions for the amateur through professional flutist. The cost of this lesson includes pick up and delivery to the local Septa transit station for those traveling more than forty miles.
Lois is available for piccolo lessons that are an addition to the students' weekly flute lessons with a separate flute teacher. Please check with your primary teacher first before making an inquiry.
Student Anushka (11th grade) performing at West Chester University after placing first in the senior division of the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia's Young Artist Competition, 2016.
Student flute choir rehearsal, Germantown Academy
“Returning for the second symposium was chamber musician and piccolo pedagogue extraordinaire, Lois Herbine. With her opening workshop on “The Elements of Musicality” Lois examined the phrasing philosophies of William Kincaid and Marcel Tabuteau, legendary principal flute and oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Hailing from this tradition, and with her excellent language skills, Lois offered one valuable nugget of insight after another during the masterclass sessions.”
– Nancy Nourse, Flute Focus review of the 2009 International Piccolo Symposium, January 1, 2010
Lois conducts adult flute choir sessions for her private students (amateur to semiprofessional) on the third Wednesday of each month. Click here for more information on the choir.
Cathy as a first-year student entering the 5th grade.
Cathy, in 9th grade playing Fantasy by Gabriel Faure, 2016