Sandy Olson, Conductor of the Flute Choir, holds a Master of Music in flute performance from Western Illinois University, a Bachelors degree in music education from Arkansas State University, and completed her DMA coursework in flute performance at the University of Illinois. She has been a flute teacher and director of the summer flute camp at Westminster Conservatory as well as a middle school music teacher in South Brunswick, New Jersey for the past twenty years. For the National Flute Association, Sandy is past chairman of both the High School Soloist Competition and the High School Flute Choir Competition. Her love of nurturing young students started with her Suzuki Flute Teacher Training with Tatsumi Shiojima. She has performed at both the National Flute Association and British Flute Association flute conventions with Wye’s Guys Flute Quintet, and with orchestras throughout Illinois and Florida. Sandy joined the Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey staff in 2016.