Flutist Anesha Dexter is currently a doctoral student at the University of Kansas, where she also serves as the flute graduate teaching assistant. She is an active performer and chamber musician with a passion for teaching. She appeared as a soloist with the University of Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and the Arkansas Tech University Wind Ensemble. She has taught masterclasses and given performances at middle and high schools throughout central Arkansas, and also taught a masterclass at the Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair in Reston, Virginia. She is a performing artist for the Avanti and James Galway Spirit flutes by Conn-Selmer, Inc., and in 2010 and in 2012 she was invited to perform at the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM).

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Anesha’s studies have taken her around the US and Europe. Between 2002 and 2007, she worked with Marina Piccinini at the International Master Class in Switzerland, with Susan Hoeppner at Domaine Forget in Canada, and with Michel Debost at the Oxford Flute Summer School in England, among others. She was also one of six students selected internationally to study with Trevor Wye in Kent, England. In 2011, she performed with members of the University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra at the Eutin Festspiele in Eutin, Germany.

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Most recently, she was accepted into the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she will begin studies with William Bennett this fall.