Ebonee Thomas, flute

About the Artists

Ebonee Thomas

Thomas is the Second Flute and Piccolo for The Dallas Opera, and has previously served as Principal Flute of the Knoxville Symphony, Principal Flute of the Florida Grand Opera, and Second Flute of the Houston Symphony. She spends her summers as a flutist with the Central City Opera in Colorado, and has been guest principal with symphonies and operas across the country. A passionate pedagogue, Thomas served as a member of the board of the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestras and is on the National Advisory Board of the Memphis Youth Symphony Program. She is also currently the Piccolo Committee Chair for the National Flute Association. An avid chamber musician, Thomas has worked with the Austin Chamber Music Society and Voices of Change, a new music ensemble in Dallas. She was a finalist for the Austin Arts Awards for her performance of Valerie Coleman’s Danza de la Mariposa. She recently made her debut performance with the ensembleNEWSRQ, a contemporary ensemble highlighting living and underrepresented composers. 

Patti Wolf

Since being chosen at age nineteen as the youngest competitor of the 1985 Van Cliburn Competition, Patti Wolf has performed as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She has collaborated in recital with many of the world’s most distinguished musical artists, such as cellist Lynn Harrell, pianist Jon Kimura Parker, flutist Carol Wincenc, violinist Ilya Kaler, concertmasters Glenn Dicterow, Andrés Cárdenas, David Halen and Nina Bodnar, soprano Erin Wall, Chicago Symphony principal horn Dale Clevenger, and renowned German horn soloist and recording artist Hermann Baumann. In 2017, Ms. Wolf joined the faculty at the University of Texas, Austin, Butler School of Music, where she is assistant professor of practice in collaborative piano. She performs regularly with faculty members and has been a guest recently with the Austin Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Lyrica Baroque in New Orleans, and HeightsArts in Cleveland, Oh, performing with musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra.

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