Dr. Cate Hummel
Cate Hummel founded Dr. Cate's Flute Camp in 2000.
She has large private studios in Naperville, Oswego, St.
Charles and Carpentersville, IL. Earning a
reputation as one of the most successful flute instructors in Chicagoland, every
year she has students who go on to be performance and music education majors at
music schools and universities in Illinois and around the country. She has
performed numerous times in the Chicago area including performances on the Dame
Myra Hess Series at the Cultural Center, Harold Washington Library Orpheus
Series, DePaul Music Mart Lunchtime Concerts, and for the Musicians Club of
Women. As winner of the Artists International Young Artists Competition, she was
presented in a debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Cate received her DMA and MM degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and BM
from the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts.
Leighann Daihl
Leighann Daihl is currently working on two master’s degrees
at the Jacob’s School of Music at Indiana University where she studies modern
flute with Kate Lukas and baroque flute with Michael McCraw and Barbara Kallaur.
She was the 2007 winner of the Early Music Concerto Competition at Indiana. In
August Leighann placed third in the National Flute Association Baroque Flute
Artist Competition where she was the only American to make it into the finals.
Before beginning her master’s degrees at Indiana she spent a year in England
intensively studying flute with Trevor Wye. She was a 2004 graduate of DePauw
University in Greencastle, IN where she majored in flute performance. She has
studied with Cate Hummel, Mary Louise Poor, Anne Reynolds, and Marco Grenados.
She has toured Europe twice with the DePauw Chamber Orchestra and once with the
American Musical Ambassadors. She spent the fall semester of her junior year
studying in Vienna, Austria with Barbara Giesler-Hasse. While at DePauw she won
the concerto competition in 2003 and 2004 and was a member of many different
ensembles. She also was the 2004 instrumental winner of the Indianapolis Matinee
Musicale Competition.
Laura Jelinek
Laura is a graduate of
Wartburg College in Waverly, IA where she received a Bachelor of Music
Education. She teaches middle school band in the Joliet
school district. She has played flute from a young age and
now performs with the Fox Valley Concert Band in Geneva, IL. She
currently studies flute with Cate Hummel. She is a member of MENC and the
National Flute Association and has an active flute studio both in
Joliet and
Naperville. She lives in Naperville with her husband and her dogs.
