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Prior to becoming Principal Flute with the North Carolina Symphony, Anne Whaley Laney was Principal Flute with the Canton Symphony and piccoloist with the Aspen Festival Orchestra.

She has appeared as flute soloist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, playing Mozart’s Concerto in D Major, K.314, and with the Canton Symphony, playing John Corigliano’s Pied Piper Fantasy. She has also been featured with the North Carolina Symphony in various roles as a soloist.

A native of Alton, Ill., Laney earned her bachelor’s degree from Western Illinois University where she studied with Gerald Carey, and her master’s degree from DePaul University where she studied with Donald Peck.