Yamaha Artist Trudy Kane was Principal Flute at the Metropolitan Opera 1976-2008, and Professor of Flute at the Frost School of Music 2008-2019. She was honored with the National Flute Association’s 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Kane was also active in New York's recording studios and can be heard on the soundtracks of many film scores including The Untouchables and Beauty and the Beast (original). She can be heard and seen on many Met videos including Il Trittico, Manon Lescaut, Peter Grimes, and three different La Bohemes. Her solo CD In the French Style includes Sonatas by Frank and Fauré, and the Gieseking Sonatine.
In 2015 the Frost School commissioned Ellen Zwillich's Concerto Elegia for her, which she premiered and recorded with Thomas Sleeper and the Frost Symphony Orchestra. Kane performed the work again at the 2016 National Flute Convention.
Kane has been active in commissioning new works. They include several for flute ensemble including Thomas Sleeper's Concerto for Flute and Flute Orchestra, Dorothy Hindman's "Mechanisms", and Lansing McLoskey's que la tierra se partió por su sonido. Thomas Sleeper wrote a Flute Sonata for her and pianist Oleksii Ivanchenko; Valerie Coleman wrote Matisseries for solo flute for her in 2019.
Kane has also been actively arranging works for flute ensemble. Her publications include arrangements of Act 2 of Puccini's La Boheme, Intermezzo to Act 3 of Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Smetana’s Overture to the Bartered Bride; flute quartets including Carmen for Four, Gossec Tambourin, Rimsky-Korsakov Flight of the Bumble Bee, and the Final Trio from Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Also published are Cadenzas to the Mozart D Major Flute Concerto and her transcription of the Fauré Violin Sonata.
There are many YouTube videos available of performances and interviews. Active as a teacher, Trudy Kane continues to give masterclasses around the country.
