About Linda

Linda Jenkins is an ardent collaborative musician and teacher based in San Antonio, Texas. She can be heard playing with various performing groups and frequently works with local composers as a soloist and chamber musician. Most recently, Linda can be heard on the album ‘In Focus 6’, released in June 2022 by RMN Music. Vox Venti, her Denton-based flute quartet, presented programs featuring living women composers at the 2022 Florida Flute Association Convention as well as the 2022 Mid-Atlantic Flute Convention. In 2018, Linda commissioned and premiered a full recital of works for solo flute and piccolo in collaboration with the Oregon Composers Forum. She was also the resident flute and piccolo player for the TaiHei Ensemble, a chamber group dedicated to premiering non-Western inspired contemporary works.

Linda was named Honorable Mention in the final round of Oklahoma Flute Society’s 2022 Young Artist Convention as well as in the Rochester Flute Association’s Piccolo Artist Competition in 2020. That year she was a finalist in the Central Ohio Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition, although the live final round was cancelled. In 2019 she was named first prizewinner of Atlanta Flute Club’s Carl D. Hall piccolo competition and presented a recital at the AFC’s Annual Flute Convention. Linda has been a guest performer at the biennial Oregon Bach Festival’s Composer Symposium, SEAMUS, University of Oregon’s Musicking conference, Greater Portland Flute Society’s Spring Flute Fair, National Flute Association, and has performed in master classes for Bonita Boyd, Carol Wincenc, Jim Walker, Elizabeth Rowe, and many other notable flutists. 

Linda has a B.M. from Bowling Green State University and a M.M. from the University of Oregon where she studied with Dr. Conor Nelson and Professor Molly Barth respectively. She recently completed a Graduate Artist Certificate with Professor Terri Sundberg at the University of North Texas and is pursuing a Doctorate in Music.