Flutist Faith Wasson is an international performing artist, having toured throughout Europe and North America as an orchestral and solo musician at venues including the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, National Concert Hall of Ireland, and Palais Corbelli in Vienna, Austria. She currently holds the principal piccolo/3rd flute position with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra.
Faith is also a keen chamber musician and is the creator of the Flute with Faith & Friends chamber concert series (see events page), founding member of The Pennsylvania Chamber Artists trio, and the curator of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra chamber concert series.
Faith has appeared as concerto soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the Montgomery County Concert Band and the Media Arts Council Festival Orchestra. Faith has won numerous competitions and awards including the NSO concerto competition, the Boyer College Gladfelter Scholarship for outstanding performance, and the Temple University Creative Arts and Research Scholarship Award.
Faith is a proponent of music by women composers, frequently performing the re-discovered music of women composers of the past and commissioning works by contemporary women composers. She made the Irish premiere of the Sonata for flute and piano by Melanie Bonis. She has completed a set of transcriptions by American composer, Amy Beach, and compiled a book of Flute Music by French Women Composers.
She graduated Summa Cum Laude with dual degrees from Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance where she simultaneously earned a Bachelor of Music in Music History and a Bachelor of Music in flute performance studying under Loren Lind of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She went on to obtain a Masters of Music in Flute Performance at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, Ireland where she studied flute with William Dowdall of the National Symphony Orchestra and piccolo with Patricia Morris of the BBC Symphony.
Faith has received additional mentorship and masterclass instruction from renowned flutists Sir James Galway, Jeffrey Khaner, Mimi Stillman, Adam Walker, Marina Piccinini, David Kramer, Gary Schocker and other wonderful players.
Mrs. Wasson has been a judge for multiple flute competitions and is a longtime member of the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia and the National Flute Association. Faith is a dedicated educator and has taught junior students at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and served as a mentor at the Philadelphia Festival of Young Musicians.
She currently coaches chamber ensembles and maintains an active online and in-person flute/piccolo studio at her home in Glenside, Pennsylvania.