Elisa Muzzillo is a performing flutist and flute instructor in the greater Philadelphia area. She earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Colorado Boulder and a Bachelor of Music degree from Temple University. An active and versatile flutist in Philadelphia, she has performed with ensembles around the Pennsylvania area such as Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Reading Symphony Orchestra, Wayne Oratorio Society, Pennsylvania Philharmonic, and more. An equally passionate chamber musician, Elisa performs recitals around the tri-state area and loves to collaborate with unique ensembles for new music projects and events.
Elisa is a prizewinner of the 2022 Canadian-American Flute Symposium Solo Artist Competition and the 2020 Young Artist Competition for the Flute Society of Washington, D.C. In 2017, she was a recipient of the Louis and Harold Price Foundation fellowship to perform at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, where she studied and performed with musicians from the Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Seattle symphony orchestras. During her time in Colorado, she performed with the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra in Cheyenne, WY and the Longmont Symphony Orchestra in Longmont, CO. She is a former fellow of the Texas Music Festival and alumna of the Pierre Monteux School & Music Festival.
Elisa enjoys a diverse freelance career and a longstanding flute studio teaching students of all levels. A Suzuki Certified Instructor, she currently operates and teaches for her own private studio and is on the Private Lesson Flute Faculty at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy in Philadelphia.