Mike Duckworth is a Professional Flutist, Flute Teacher and Voice Actor based in New York City. Mike holds an Undergraduate Degree with Academic Honors in Flute performance from Stony Brook University where he studied with Ms. Carol Wincenc, and served as one of the winners of The Stony Brook Undergraduate Orchestra Concerto Competition, performing the 1st Movement of the Mozart Flute Concerto No. 2 in D with the orchestra and a Masters of Music Degree in Flute & Piccolo Performance & Literature from Northwestern University Bienen School of Music under the guidance of Mr. Walfrid Kujala and Mr. Richard Graef where he performed with the Symphonic Wind Ensemble on Flute and Piccolo,(Click here to listen to a live recording of Ticheli’s “Postcard” for Symphonic Wind Ensemble with Mike playing piccolo)The University Symphony Orchestra, NU Contemporary Ensemble and the Northwestern Summer Orchestra. Mike has also studied at Michigan State University under the guidance of Mr. Israel Borouchoff (his first private teacher), Interlochen Arts Academy National Music Camp under the guidance of Mary Louise Poor and Eugene Steinquist, The University of Michigan School of Music under the guidance of Mr. Keith Bryan, Berklee College of Music (flute & voice) under the guidance of Mr. Matthew Marvuglio (flute), Mr. Andrew McGhee (improvisation) Ms. Sharon Brown (voice) and Ms. Joyce Lucia (voice). Additional extended studies with Mr. Harold Jones (NYC), Keith Underwood (NYC), Julius Baker (NYC). Masterclasses with Trevor Wye, Paul Edmund Davies and Jill Felber.
As a flute repair apprentice to the late Albert Weatherly (a Premiere Master Technician and flute builder who developed his repair skills under the tutelage of Verne Powell himself on Huntington Ave in Boston, later relocating with his Trumpeter brother to NYC for studies with Barrere at Juilliard). Mike has had the opportunity to have serviced numerous Flutes, Piccolos and Harmony Flutes of dozens of makers domestic and international. Having attained the ability to identify an instruments inherent qualities after having serviced, played and recorded on dozens of wonderfully crafted handmade instruments made domestically and internationally.