A dynamic performer, teacher, and scholar, Dr. Stephanie Lupo is the flute professor at Olivet Nazarene University. She is also the Woodwind Coach of the Kankakee Valley Youth Symphony Orchestra. She has also served as flute faculty at the Dorian Summer Music Camps. Prior to these appointments, she was a teaching assistant at the University of Iowa and the University of Akron.
Dr. Lupo wrote The Piccolo Intonation Book (ALRY Publications), which contains a discussion on the design of the piccolo and performance issues that relate to tuning; it also features 39 etudes originally composed for the piccolo and an extensive fingering chart. She has also contributed to several prominent flute-community publications: Flute Talk Magazine, The Flutist Quarterly, the Chicago Flute Club’s Pipeline, and the newsletters of the New York Flute Club and the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia.
Dr. Lupo is principal flute of the Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra, regularly performs with the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra on flute and piccolo, and she can be heard on the Albany Records label. She was also principal piccolo of the Wheaton Symphony Orchestra and co-principal flute and piccolo of the Ohio Light Opera. She has also performed with the Heartland Festival Orchestra, La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, and the Peoria Bach Festival Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she plays regularly in the KVSO Woodwind Quintet and her flute duo, Whisper Tones. She performs with a 22K gold J.R. Lafin headjoint with a 9K/Ag Burkart body and a Keefe piccolo made of grenadilla wood with 14K rose gold fittings.
As a Licensed Body Mapping Educator, Dr. Lupo presented at the 2023 Association for Body Mapping Conference in Charlotte. She also teaches a five-day Body Mapping course at the ONU School of Music Summer Camp. She is excited to serve on ABME's Education Committee.
Active in the national flute community, Dr. Lupo serves on the National Flute Association Piccolo and Performance Health Care Committees. She has performed, presented, and adjudicated at festivals around the country, including the NFA Convention, the New York Flute Fair, the Upper Midwest Flute Association Flute Fest, the Iowa Flute Festival, and the Atlanta Flute Fair. She has also adjudicated for the Society of American Musicians, the FBA P.I.L.O.T.S. Convention, and IESA Solo & Ensemble contest. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Flute Club as voting program chair, webmaster, and Pipeline copy editor for four seasons.
Dr. Lupo holds a DMA in flute performance and pedagogy with a secondary area in music theory from the University of Iowa. Her thesis won the 2022 NFA Graduate Research Competition. She earned an MM from the University of Akron and a BM from Bradley University. Her primary flute teachers include Nicole Esposito, George Pope, and Kyle Dzapo, and her main ABME teachers include Amy Likar and Kelly Mollnow Wilson.
Dr. Lupo wrote The Piccolo Intonation Book (ALRY Publications), which contains a discussion on the design of the piccolo and performance issues that relate to tuning; it also features 39 etudes originally composed for the piccolo and an extensive fingering chart. She has also contributed to several prominent flute-community publications: Flute Talk Magazine, The Flutist Quarterly, the Chicago Flute Club’s Pipeline, and the newsletters of the New York Flute Club and the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia.
Dr. Lupo is principal flute of the Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra, regularly performs with the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra on flute and piccolo, and she can be heard on the Albany Records label. She was also principal piccolo of the Wheaton Symphony Orchestra and co-principal flute and piccolo of the Ohio Light Opera. She has also performed with the Heartland Festival Orchestra, La Crosse Symphony Orchestra, and the Peoria Bach Festival Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she plays regularly in the KVSO Woodwind Quintet and her flute duo, Whisper Tones. She performs with a 22K gold J.R. Lafin headjoint with a 9K/Ag Burkart body and a Keefe piccolo made of grenadilla wood with 14K rose gold fittings.
As a Licensed Body Mapping Educator, Dr. Lupo presented at the 2023 Association for Body Mapping Conference in Charlotte. She also teaches a five-day Body Mapping course at the ONU School of Music Summer Camp. She is excited to serve on ABME's Education Committee.
Active in the national flute community, Dr. Lupo serves on the National Flute Association Piccolo and Performance Health Care Committees. She has performed, presented, and adjudicated at festivals around the country, including the NFA Convention, the New York Flute Fair, the Upper Midwest Flute Association Flute Fest, the Iowa Flute Festival, and the Atlanta Flute Fair. She has also adjudicated for the Society of American Musicians, the FBA P.I.L.O.T.S. Convention, and IESA Solo & Ensemble contest. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Flute Club as voting program chair, webmaster, and Pipeline copy editor for four seasons.
Dr. Lupo holds a DMA in flute performance and pedagogy with a secondary area in music theory from the University of Iowa. Her thesis won the 2022 NFA Graduate Research Competition. She earned an MM from the University of Akron and a BM from Bradley University. Her primary flute teachers include Nicole Esposito, George Pope, and Kyle Dzapo, and her main ABME teachers include Amy Likar and Kelly Mollnow Wilson.