Lea Pearson, DMA
- Certified Andover Educator
- Author of Body Mapping for Flutists: What Every Flute
Teacher Needs to Know About the Body
- Has taught flute at Hillsdale, Heidlberg and Centre Colleges and The Ohio State University
Full Biography
Lea Pearson, flutist, holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in flute performance from The Ohio State University. She was a 1998 Fulbright Scholar at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where she studied flute performance from an Alexander Technique perspective with Liisa Ruoho.
With B.A. and M.A. degrees from Hampshire College and Stanford University, she has taught flute at Hillsdale, Heidelberg and Centre Colleges and The Ohio State University, and has performed as a member of the South Bend Symphony and the Toledo Orchestra.
Dr. Pearson specializes in performing music by women composers, in integrating the arts with education, and in teaching injury prevention and performance enhancement for musicians. She has studied the Alexander Technique with Barbara Conable for many years.
Her groundbreaking book, Body Mapping for Flutists: What Every Flute Teacher Needs to Know About the Body, adapts the principles of Body Mapping to Flute Pedagogy.