Jane Lenoir, flutist, grew up in a family of professional musicians in Tampa, Florida and left at 15 years old to study at Interlochen Arts Academy and later Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. She has a career spanning many different styles of music, including “new” music, orchestral work, chamber music, jazz, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music and Latin Jazz, to baroque flute.   She has performed with the Oakland Symphony, Ballet and Opera, Stockton Symphony, San Jose Symphony, SF Opera, SF Ballet,  San Francisco Chamber Music Society and University of California Contemporary Chamber Players. She is principal flute of the Music in the Mountains Orchestra and appears regularly as a soloist at the festival.

Jane formed Berkeley Choro Ensemble in 2010, and Berkeley Choro Festival as co-director in 2013.  In 2018, two albums of Brazilian music were produced:  Jane Lenoir plays Penezzi,  with composer and 7-string guitarist Alessandro Penezzi, São Paulo, Brazil, and The View from Here, with Berkeley Choro Ensemble, featuring the music of contemporary Brazilian composers.

Jane has taught at San Domenico School, the SF Conservatory of Music, Cazadero Performing Arts Summer Chamber Music Workshop, National Flute Association Conventions, Suzuki Conventions, and conducted workshops all over the US and Europe. She coaches the flute section for Young People’s Symphony in Berkeley. Her students have performed with the Marin Youth Orchestra, Oakland Youth Orchestra, UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, Interlochen Center of the Arts Camp Ensembles, Young People’s Symphony Orchestra (YPSO).