New Teacher!

The Music Academy of North Carolina is proud to announce that Peter Shanahan will be joining the music faculty as a flute instructor. Peter regularly performs as a freelance musician with the Charleston, Winston-Salem, Western Piedmont, Salisbury, and Greensboro Symphonies, as well as with the Carolina Chamber Symphony and Southwest Florida Symphony. His students have placed at the highest levels of local and state-wide competitions and have attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Cleveland Institute of Music.

As a performer and teaching artist with the Open Dream Ensemble, he has performed hundreds of concerts and many teaching residencies across the Southeast. In the Open Dream Ensemble, Peter performs as a flutist, singer, and actor in creative, original works of theater for children and adults and can be seen in the first educational web series for kids: The Adventures of the Open Dream Ensemble.

Peter received his Master of Music from Indiana University and a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His past teachers include Tadeu Coelho, Philip Dunigan, and Thomas Robertello.