Flutist Aimee Toner is dedicated to relationship-building through music-making and expanding the scope and accessibility of the musical arts.
Aimee is the Instructor of Flute at the University of Connecticut, where she hosts the collegiate flute studio on the Storrs main campus. She is also a staff teaching artist at the Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras, Arts for Learning Connecticut, Eastern Connecticut University, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School. Toner’s private studio currently includes students aged 7-60+ who study with her in-person in New Haven or through virtual instruction.
Toner’s performance experience has involved performing as flutist and piccolo player with orchestras including the Norwalk Symphony, the Greater Bridgeport Symphony, the Enigma Chamber Opera Orchestra, the Glens Falls Symphony, the New Amsterdam Opera, and the Du Bois Symphony, and collaborating in chamber groups that have ranged from jazz trios in Italian restaurants to wind quintets on stage at Carnegie Hall. Currently, Aimee is the flutist in Duo Brève, a touring harp-flute duo with harpist Mia Venezia that is managed by the Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York. Toner is also honored to represent Wm S. Haynes Co. as a Haynes Young Artist ,and plays on a custom 10K Gold Haynes Flute.
Aimee is a graduate of the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Cynthia Meyers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for her Master’s in Flute Performance and obtained a concentration in Music in Education. Toner is also a graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University (Phi Beta Kappa), where she majored in Ethnomusicology and Economics.
Aimee currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her husband and her two rescue cats Billie and Butternut. She enjoys taking walks and bike rides in her neighborhood, exploring photography, and finding four leaf clover along the way.
Dress rehearsal for Toner’s solo debut with the Columbia University Orchestra at Symphony Space on April 24th, 2018
New York Youth Symphony performance at Carnegie Hall on May 27th, 2018. Photographer: Chris Lee
Solo performance at the Wadsworth Atheneum in March 2023 as a part of the museum’s Second Saturdays series
Aimee conducting at the Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestra Winter Concert in 2022.
Performing for Emmanuel Pahud at Domaine Forget in June 2018.
Performance with guitarist Elliot Fisk in Jordan Hall through NEC’s “Spring Forward” Festival in May 2021.
Event photo from “PLUGGED-IN”, New England Conservatory’s first Electroacoustic festival that Aimee helped produce as Label Manager.
Performance as principal flutist with the New England Conservatory Philharmonic Orchestra in Jordan Hall in October 2021.
Harp- Flute Duo Duo Brève with Mia Venezia, harp.
Screenshot from the final video of the Virtual School Song Project, where Robyn Smith, Christine Horting (both pictured), and two other professional musicians performed student compositions.
Selection of article detailing Aimee’s work at the Sophia Academy.
Aimee conducting an original arrangement of “How’s Moving Castle” as the resident Director of the Columbia Pops Orchestra.
Toner performing “Stars and Stripes” as a Lyric Society Teaching Artist at the Mott School in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Aimee performing a duet with her flute student at St. George’s Academy, where she works as the school’s resident flute faculty member.
Backstage with Demarre Mcgill, Michael Repper, and the NYYS flute section at Stern Auditorium.
Performing Peter and the Wolf with wind quintet at Bridge Boston Charter School through the NEC Community Ensemble Fellowship.