Welcome flute enthusiasts! Please click a link below to find out more about studying flute, performance opportunities, readings & performances of two “Flutie” books, the Savannah Area Flute Association, resources for flutists, upcoming events, listening to flute music, and contacting Savannah Flute.
Private Flute Lessons & Group Classes
Flute Performances-Weddings & Special Events
Flutie Book Readings/Performances
The Savannah Area Flute Association & Flute Choir
Flutists’ Resources with Skye Flute Music
About Erika
Savannah Flute is led by Erika Skye Andres, an active teacher, flute performer, and composer and arranger in the Savannah area. She is available to teach private flute lessons and to play for weddings and other special events either as a soloist or with her flute and cello ensemble, Silver & Strings, or to write a special composition or arrangement.
A dedicated teacher, Erika currently has her own private studio where she teaches flute lessons to students of any age (beginning as young as age 5 to adults) or level, both in person and virtually. She has a lot of experience teaching beginning flutists and, as she was also a teaching assistant at Florida State University where she taught undergraduate flute majors, advanced students as well, along with every level in between. She runs Skye Flute Music which provides resources for flutists including courses, activities, books (including her children’s storybooks “Flutie’s Family Reunion” and “Flutie and Pickle’s Journey Through Time“), sheet music, a blog, and an online flute community. She is also a teacher for the online platform Lessonface where she has taught many different students from around the world. As director of the Savannah Area Flute Association’s flute choirs, she has experience working with flutists of all skill levels develop essential ensemble skills, and additionally teaches group classes to both young beginners and advanced flutists. She also currently teaches music appreciation courses at Savannah Technical College, teaches sectionals through the educational department of the Savannah Philharmonic, and is a former substitute music teacher at schools. She has also intensely studied flute and wind pedagogy and has experience tutoring music theory and essential piano skills as well.
Erika has played flute in many orchestras, bands, flute choirs and chamber ensembles, as well as a soloist, and has played for recitals, concerts, conventions, weddings, church services, nursing homes, and many other venues for over twenty years. She is the founder and president of the Savannah Area Flute Association, the founder of the Silver & Strings ensemble for flute and cello, a member of Ensemble 126, and is a flute substitute for orchestras. Additionally, she has given many recitals, played as the soloist on the performance of her original band transcription of a concerto, participated in masterclasses of prestigious flutists like Marina Piccinini, Nestor Torres, Gergely Ittzés, Walfrid Kujala, and Stephen Preston, and performed at several flute conventions, including ones for the National Flute Association and the Florida Flute Association.
She is also an advocate for historically informed performances of early music on the instruments for which they were intended and plays the Baroque flute in the Savannah Baroque ensemble and recorder and Renaissance flute in The Goliards ensemble. She is additionally a great proponent of new music, having been a performing member of the Flute New Music Consortium and a finalist for their first Flute Artist Competition. And she enjoys playing many other flutes including concert flutes like the piccolo, alto, bass, and contrabass flutes and many different world instruments including the Irish flute and whistle and the Native American flute. Also, she likes to dabble in flute repair and flute making, having studied with Jonathon Landell and the Vermont Guild of Flute Making. She actually made her own flute that she plays as one of her main instruments!
Additionally, Erika is an avid composer and arranger. Her works are published with Associated Music Publishers and Sheet Music Plus. She has had two recordings of original works aired on Et Lux Radio, and her compositions have been performed on many concerts. Her works are in a variety of styles and instrumentations including, among others, works for solo flute, flute choir, flute and cello, choir, band, percussion, piano, soprano and piano, clarinet and piano, violin and cello, and piccolo and tuba with video and synthesized audio.
Erika holds a Master of Music degree in flute performance from Florida State University where she studied flute with Eva Amsler and a Bachelor of Arts degree in flute performance and music composition from Armstrong State University where she studied flute with Lorraine Jones and composition with Randall Reese.