Jessica Lizak
Education and Training
BM, University of Michigan; MM, New England Conservatory; DMA, Boston University.
Awards and Recognition
Top Prize, Pappoutsakis Flute Competition
Top Prize, Myrna Brown International Flute Competition
Top Prize, Bohemians Club of the Detroit Symphony Concerto Competition
Multiple time winner of the Boston University Departmental Award for Outstanding Musical Achievements
Fellowship, Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts
Fellowship, Music Academy of the West in California
Fellowship, Domaine Forget in Canada
Fellowship, Interlochen in Michigan
Jessica Lizak
Division: Expanded Education
Department: Woodwinds
Flutist Dr. Jessica Lizak enjoys a professional life actively engaged within Boston's versatile and inspiring music scene. The Boston Music Intelligencer has described her performances as full of "youthful energy and rhythmic drive," as well as possessing "light and free precision...a nearly jazz-like casualness."
She actively performs with many of New England’s leading musical organizations, including the Orchestra of Indian Hill, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera, Marsh Chapel Collegium, Opera North Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Back Bay Chorale. She is also frequently invited to perform with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Portland Symphony, Boston Philharmonic, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Masterworks Chorale, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Sound Icon, Albany Symphony, Springfield Symphony, and Symphony New Hampshire, among others. She has been a soloist at both the National Flute Convention and the Greater Boston Flute Association’s Flute Fair, and she has performed as a chamber musician on WGBH and WCRB. Her discography includes Tanglewood commemorative recordings available through the BSO website, and numerous collaborations with BMOP, Boston’s premier orchestra for newly composed and experimental orchestral works. She can also be heard on Natalie Merchant’s CD Leave Your Sleep, in an upcoming children’s production in collaboration with John Lithgow, on Parma Record’s Godesses, and Novona Record’s Polarities and Voyage/Pierre Schroeder.
Dr. Lizak is also equally committed to education through excellence in flute training/private lessons. She holds full teaching studios with the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, Lexington Fine Arts Department, and Winchester Community Music School. She is proud of her wonderful students, who are consistently top finishers at local and regional auditions.
Curriculum Vitae
BM, University of Michigan; MM, New England Conservatory; DMA, Boston University.
- Top Prize, Pappoutsakis Flute Competition
- Top Prize, Myrna Brown International Flute Competition
- Top Prize, Bohemians Club of the Detroit Symphony Concerto Competition
- Multiple time winner of the Boston University Departmental Award for Outstanding Musical Achievements
- Fellowship, Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts
- Fellowship, Music Academy of the West in California
- Fellowship, Domaine Forget in Canada
- Fellowship, Interlochen in Michigan