Dr. Tamara Thweatt enjoys a varied career as soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, whistle and world flute enthusiast, recording studio artist, and dedicated teacher.

       Currently Principal Flute of the Carmel Symphony Orchestra and Instructor of Flute at the University of Indianapolis, Tamara was previously Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Iowa and 3rd Flute/Piccolo of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Tamara has performed with the Chicago Symphony, National Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, and Indianapolis Symphony among others. Her concerto appearances include the Bach Sinfonia (D.C.), the Pontiac Oakland Symphony (Michigan), the Charlotte NC Symphony, and the Michigan Chamber Players.

       As a Fulbright Scholar to the U.K., Tamara spent a year of intensive study in the studio of Trevor Wye and performed in recitals in London and Berlin. Dr. Thweatt is an active contemporary music flutist and has premiered numerous

new works. She is also an accomplished baroque flutist, performing the major baroque repertoire on her Folkers & Powell copy of a c. 1730 Denner, and also an avid Irish whistle player, frequently called on for whistle solo parts in commercial recordings.

       Dr. Thweatt earned her DMA from the University of Michigan, a Master's degree from Northwestern University and a Bachelor's degree from Florida State University. Her principal teachers include Trevor Wye, Clement Barone, Charles Delaney, Jeffery Zook, Leone Buyse and Walfrid Kujala. As Instructor of Flute at the University of Indianapolis, Thweatt teaches privately, coaches chamber music, conducts flute ensemble, and performs widely in concerts and recordings in Indianapolis.

"Tamara Thweatt wielded her baroque flute well for George Philipp Telemann's Fantasy in D Major, and I found her ideas on phrasing and creating lines to be very exciting."

                                                             -- NUVO Weekly, Chantal Incandela