Kristen Dye

Kristen Dye is an active performer and music educator in Massachusetts. Since 2019 she has been the Director of Elementary and Junior High bands in Acton-Boxborough and Assistant Director of the High School Bands and keeps a small private studio. Prior to her time at AB, she was an Elementary band director in North Reading, and spent her summers teaching at the BSO's Days in the Arts program in Lenox, MA. She is a founding member of the Bay State Winds and New England Film Orchestra, which she has also conducted, and plays with the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, Metropolitan Wind Symphony, Commonwealth Wind Symphony, Middlesex County Volunteers Fife and Drum Corps, and spends much of her time in various pit orchestras in Eastern Massachusetts, including Speakeasy Theater, Pentucket Players, and many others.

As an avid contemporary musician, Kristen has been a SICPP Fellow and a Cortona Sessions Fellow. She enjoys the benefits of contemporary methods of structured improvisation with methods such as Soundpainting. She received her Bachelors in Music Education and Performance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her Masters in Musicology and Flute Performance from the University of Northern Colorado. Her trio won the University's Southard Competition for performing George Crumb's Vox Balaenae, and her Masters thesis focused on the Greek influences in the most important flute music of André Jolivet. Her principal teachers include Dr. James Hall, Dr. Jonathan Bellman, Dr. Kenneth Singleton, and Christopher Krueger.