Lois Bliss Herbine is a solo piccolo artist on Crystal Records. All six accompanied recordings from her CD, Take Wing, including premieres of Daugherty, Persichetti, and Dorff, can be heard on radio stations across the United States. Flute Talk and Flute Network reviews describe her piccolo as "enchanting", "mesmerizing", and "vivid". The Gramophone hails her recital as "high-flying" and Music Web International exclaims, "Another leading wind soloist takes flight". In 2000 Herbine was invited to give a solo performance on the flute and piccolo for the Republican Governors' Association at the Republican National Convention. Since then she has performed multiple times at National Flute Association conventions to favorable press, including recent premieres of music for piccolo by Lucien Posman, David Finko, Daniel Dorff and Cynthia Folio.

As a commercial orchestral artist, Herbine has served as principal flute for Peter Nero's Philly Pops and the Mann Festival orchestra, and performed in soundtracks for television and radio specials, theme music and commercials. Most recently, she was a backup artist for SONY artists John Legend and Il Divo.

Herbine was the founder and artistic director of Concerts at Carmel when it celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2009. A recording on the DTR label highlighting live performances from Concerts at Carmel's 2006 season has received favorable press from Philadelphia critics as well as comparison to internationally renowned chamber ensembles. Her performance was praised as a "model of color-driven expression" (David Patrick Stearns, The Philadelphia Inquirer).

Lois Bliss Herbine is a committed exponent of contemporary music, having commissioned and performed it with a number of ensembles on recordings for CRI and Albany labels including premieres of orchestral music by Gunther Schuller, Andrea Clearfield, Peter Schickele, Melinda Wagner, Sofia Gubaidulina and Bernard Hermann. Herbine plans to record her first solo CD for flute on the Naxos label with the music of Daniel Dorff.

As a writer, Herbine has contributed articles for the national trade magazines Flute Talk and The Flutist Quarterly , the American Music's Center's web-magazine, New Music Box, and Indiana University Press. She earned her Bachelor of Music from the New School of Music, Philadelphia, receiving the school's highest honors in performance and academic achievement. A native of the Philadelphia area, Herbine is a student of William Kincaid's "American School" and her biography is listed in the twelfth edition of The International Who's Who of Musicians. She is the American representative for the International Piccolo Symposium, having taught alongside Nicola Mazzanti (Italy), Christine Beard (USA) and Jean-Louis Beaumadier (France). In a 2009 IPS review, Canadian piccoloist Nancy Norse of Flute Focus magazine considered Herbine a "piccolo pedagogue extraordinaire". With the support of Powell Flutes, Herbine is currently giving lectures and masterclasses at Universities across the country on both piccolo performance and performing musically, following the pedagogy of her teacher John Krell and his book Kincaidiana on the legacy and pedagogy of the Philadelphia Orchestra's principal winds from the "Golden Age".

Updated on 4/13/12