Annie Gordon
Adjunct Faculty, Music Program
A versatile performer and music educator, Annie Darlin Gordon is the Principal Flutist of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, second flutist of Queen City Opera, and a long-time member of the Cincinnati-based woodwind quintet Wayside Winds. She performs regularly with regional ensembles in the Tri-State Area, such as Kentucky Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Springfield Symphony, and Blue Ash Montgomery Symphony. She has also been a guest performer with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Concert:Nova, and Opera Project Columbus.
As a music educator, Annie is passionate about the cross section of music and equity. In 2015 she joined the staff at MYCincinnati, an El Sistema-inspired, after school music program that offers free, high-quality, and intensive ensemble-based music education to students living in the Price Hill neighborhood. At MYCincinnati, Annie founded the Wind Ensemble program where she is currently the Lead Teaching Artist. Through this program, her students have had the opportunity to meet and work with incredible guest musicians and have traveled to perform and spread the word about MYCincinnati across the Midwest and beyond. Annie is also on the music faculty at Camp Encore/Coda in Southwest Maine, a sleep-away music camp for school-aged students with a passion for music. At Encore/Coda Annie is the flute instructor and conductor of the Symphonic Winds ensemble.
Annie received her Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance degree from Oberlin Conservatory and received her Master of Music degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Her principal teachers were Alberto Almarza, Jeanne Baxtresser, Alexa Still, Michel Debost, and Kathleen Chastain.
When Annie is not performing or teaching music, she is the director of Do It Yourself Darlin, a non-profit DIY Home Repair workshop program offering beginner-level home repair workshops taught by local Cincinnati craftspeople. DIYD’s workshops empower participants to feel comfortable and confident understanding the components that make up a house while learning basic home repair skills along the way.