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Virginia Sindelar

Concert Artist

Artistic Director

Teacher

Brilliant in effect… Fanfare Magazine

A real delight … Audio Magazine

b. 1942 Riverside, Illinois
Czechoslovakian heritage
1966-1980 married to cellist Luis Leguia
Sons: Gregor (1967-1996); Carl – b. 1968

Music makes connections and brings joy.

Award-winning flutist Virginia Sindelar has performed across the Americas and in Asia, and produced three classical music CDs. She has commissioned new works of music for small ensembles, and produced multi-cultural programs for local television and Massachusetts’ high schools. She continues to bring live classical music to local audiences and to nurture emerging young professional musicians.

Biography

Since 1994 Ms. Sindelar has made her home in Pascoag, Rhode Island where she has developed an historic 1730 homestead farm and nature preserve, now recognized as a northwest Rhode Island landmark. At the farm, Virginia has continued to teach flute, pursued equestrian activities, managed a horse livery, and operated a bed and breakfast (Grace Note Farm Inn). In 2018 she began the new concert series Music at the Farm with the goal of furthering the careers of brilliant young artists.

Virginia’s journey as a flutist began under the guidance of Caroline Solfronk Vacha, and at just twelve she made her solo debut with the Chicago Symphony String Ensemble. At the Juilliard School she studied with Julius Baker, earning both B.A. and M.S. degrees and receiving the prestigious Three Arts Award for her exceptional performance. A three-time Fromm Fellow at Tanglewood, she went on to teach at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and to perform as soloist with the Berkshire Festival Orchestra under the baton of Gunther Schuller.

After graduating from Juilliard, Ms. Sindelar received offers from the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra, the Rutgers University Contemporary Chamber Ensemble under Arthur Weisberg, and Symphony Nova Scotia. Yet she was drawn instead to the freedom and intimacy of solo and chamber music, where her passion could thrive. The solo path has brought its share of challenges — but also profound rewards.

Photo: Virginia in New York City during Juilliard years.

Ms. Sindelar has toured both North and South America presenting concerts and master classes. Under the management of Albert Kay Associates, NY she performed at the Seoul Arts Center as a guest of the Korean government.

As founder and Artistic Director of the Scarborough Chamber Players, Virginia commissioned new works, and presented classical, historic, and multicultural series. She was also a three-time recipient of National Endowment for the Arts awards alongside local Arts Lottery funding allowing her to bring multicultural programs to the public schools of Massachusetts. She has also served as a consultant to other organizations interested in promoting and presenting the performing arts.

Virginia has produced and hosted nationally distributed performing arts programs for Continental Cablevision of Cambridge , MA. During a similar time frame, she also served as artistic coordinator for both Quincy’s first First Night (1993) and the Randolph Peace Committee 1994 Peace Begins with Me celebration in Massachusetts.

Ms. Sindelar has recorded works by Mauro Giuliani and Music of the Romantic Era for flute and guitar on the Centaur and Titanic labels.

She has served as Adjunct Professor at Lowell University, Lowell, MA; Clark University, Worcester, MA; and Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA. She has taught master classes at the University of Lowell, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival in Maine, at the Tanglewood Institute, in Anchorage, Alaska, and at Grace Note Farm in Rhode Island. Ms. Sindelar has also taught at Milton Academy, Milton, MA; Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Maine; and privately in New England.

In 1987, Ms. Sindelar’s performance career was interrupted by a serious rear end collision. As a result, Virginia turned to her 2nd passion, horses which led her to Grace Note Farm. Her return to music via performance resumed in 2016, followed by Music at the Farm beginning in 2018.