Academics

Specialization

Flute

Education

Bachelor of Music, Ohio State University
Masters of Music, DePaul University

Bio

Altus Artist Meret Bitticks maintains an active schedule as a soloist, chamber musician, and clinician in the U.S. and abroad while on faculty at the Music Institute of Chicago, Lake Forest College, and DePaul University.

Ms. Bitticks has joined Trio Chicago and Friends for international concert tours, including the United Arab Emirates and Australia, and is a regular member of the Chicago-based woodwind quintet, the Edgewater Ensemble.

In 2013, she became the first flutist to receive a Certificate of Achievement for excellence in Suzuki instruction from the Suzuki Association of the Americas and is now a registered Suzuki Flute Teacher Trainer.

She has also traveled to Matsumoto, Japan, to work with Suzuki Flute School founder Toshio Takahashi.

A frequent volunteer at music camps in Haiti, Ms. Bitticks serves on the board of BLUME Haiti, an organization that promotes leadership through music education.