Flutist Aimee Toner is dedicated to relationship-building through music-making and expanding the scope and accessibility of the musical arts. As a Northeastern nomad, Aimee thrives in regular transit between Boston, Providence, New York City, and New Haven for her performance and teaching endeavors. Toner serves on the Artist Roster for the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York. Her performance experience has involved serving as flutist and piccolo player in orchestras including the Enigma Chamber Opera Orchestra, the Glens Falls Symphony, the Norwalk Symphony, the New Amsterdam Opera, and the Du Bois Symphony, and collaborating in chamber groups that have ranged from jazz trios in Italian restaurants to wind quintets on stage at Carnegie Hall. Aimee is a graduate of the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Cynthia Meyers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for her Master’s in Flute Performance and obtained a concentration in Music in Education. Toner is also a graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University (Phi Beta Kappa), where she majored in Ethnomusicology and Economics. In line with her performance values, Aimee is dedicated to the accessibility of classical music, and has expressed this passion through her work as faculty at the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School and on the teaching roster for Arts for Learning Connecticut, as founder of the “Music in Motion” chamber series and “Virtual School Song” project, and as the Manager of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra’s Marketing and Fundraising initiatives. Aimee currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her rescue cats Billie and Butternut. She enjoys taking bike rides, exploring photography, and finding four leaf clover along the way.