Debra Wendells Cross has held the position of Principal Flute in
The Virginia Symphony
and Virginia Opera, and made
Norfolk her home since 1980. The
Seattle native graduated with honors from the New England
Conservatory of Music in Boston,
where she studied with Boston Symphony member James Pappoutsakis. From
there she went on to study with Michel Debost in
Paris, France,
under the auspices of the Harriet Hale Woolly Scholarship. Ms. Cross
serves on the faculties of The College of William and Mary and
Old Dominion
University, and during the summer Ms. Cross is Principal
Flutist of the Eastern Music Festival in
Greensboro, North Carolina.
Ms. Cross prepared and was a guest artist in an historical program entitled
American Flute Music of the 1920's at the 1998 National Flute
Convention. She is a founding member of The Virginia Chamber Players,
a chamber music group that has released two recordings, and has been
broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today. In the fall of 2000,
with the Virginia Symphony’s Principal Harpist, Barbara Chapman, she
released a new recording,
An American Mosaic, for flute and harp.
