About Janet

Janet See first encountered the one-key baroque flute while studying its modern counterpart at Oberlin Conservatory. Ever since then, her passion for the warmth of tone and expressivity of the instrument has defined her path as a musician.

After graduate studies with Frans Vester in The Hague, Janet returned to the US and became an important ambassador for the baroque flute, performing for over 45 years as a soloist, in chamber music, and in orchestras throughout North America and Europe.

In London, where she lived for 12 years, Ms. See played principal flute for Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s two period-instrument orchestras, and with those groups recorded the complete Mozart Operas, Beethoven Symphonies, and numerous other discs. In North America she was a founding member and principal flutist with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and also for several decades played principal flute for Pacific Baroque, Seattle Baroque, and Portland Baroque orchestras. Ms. See has recorded on the DG Archiv, EMI, Erato, Hyperion, and Harmonia Mundi labels, and with the latter has made a highly acclaimed recording of the complete J.S. Bach Flute Sonatas. Her most recent recording features classical flute repertoire of Mozart and Haydn.

Janet currently teaches privately and has taught workshops for Early Music Vancouver, Amherst Early Music, San Francisco Early Music Society, and Indiana University. For over 10 years she has directed the Seattle Baroque Flute Summer Workshop. She is Music Director of the chamber music series "First Sundays Concerts" on Bainbridge Island, where she lives.

Janet earned her qualification as a teacher of the F. M. Alexander Technique, having trained in London with Walter and Dilys Carrington. Over her many years of teaching, recording, and performing, Janet has found the principles of the Alexander Technique to be invaluable and profoundly supportive of every aspect of playing the flute.