Zach Sheets – Flute

Zach Sheets enjoys a multi-faceted career as a chamber musician, orchestral flutist, and advocate for the future of the arts and culture sector.

Zach has appeared as guest Principal Flute with the Boston Ballet, A Far Cry, the Spoleto Festival USA; the Portland, Albany and Cape Symphonies; the Phoenix, Unitas, and Cape Chamber Orchestras; and as a guest of the Boston Pops, Boston Pops Esplanade, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, and New World Symphony.

At 23, Zach was named Principal Flute of the Cape Symphony Orchestra, and held that role for nine seasons. He has been a featured soloist at venues such Jordan Hall, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Chicago's Guarneri Hall, or the Cultural Center Cape Cod. He is a founding member of the [Switch~ Ensemble] and flute and piano Duo Axis, with whom he has been artist-in-residence at Brown, Cornell, Harvard, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, or University of Chicago, and has premiered numerous works by living composers who are laureates of accolades like the Pulitzer Prize, Rome Prize, or Guggenheim Fellowship.

Festival engagements include performances at the Aldeburgh (UK), Britten-Pears (UK), Cabrillo (US), CulturaUNAM (MEX), Klangspuren (AUT), ManiFeste (FR), Royaumont (FR), SinusTON (GER), Spoleto (USA), and TIME:SPANS (USA) festivals. Awards include a 2021 Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, a 2020 St. Botolph Club Artist Award, 1st prize in the 2017 Byron Hester Competition, and 1st prize in the 2015 Tallon Perkes Competition.

By day, Zach works as Chief Advancement Officer at Community Music Center of Boston, the largest outside provider of arts education to the Boston Public Schools. He leads a team of ten in a $20 million capital campaign, and his mentees have gone on to full time roles at a wide range of major cultural institutions.

MM, Eastman School of Music; BA Harvard University. A Boston resident, Zach is a Vermonter born-and-raised.