Flute Center Presents

Loá Recital

featuring April Clayton and Kristi Shade

Sponsored by Burkart Flutes & Piccolos

Live at FC New York | November 12, 2025 | 6PM EST

Free Auditor Tickets

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Lóa (April Clayton, Flute, and Kristi Shade, Harp) has performed extensively in the United States and Iceland since its founding in 2023. April Clayton and Kristi Shade are also active soloists, orchestral and chamber players on their own. Performances include the Utah Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of New York, Vienna’s International Music Academy Orpheus, Broadway Shows, The Tonight Show, David Letterman, and many more. This recital features music from the duo's debut CD, which was released in October, 2025. The CD features first recordings of some of the best music composed for flute and harp duo, including Daniel Dorff's Serenade, a five-movement suite based on a Parisian love song composed in 1370. Music by Bax, Damase, Genzmer, Magnusson, and Sveinsson will also be featured.

April Clayton has performed around the world, including Zurich, Riva del Garda, Granada, Leipzig, Moscow, Vancouver, Barbados, Haiti, Bahia, Seoul, England, Scotland, Wales, Mexico, and elsewhere. She has spent summers performing and teaching in Vienna, Varna, and Paris alongside faculty from the Paris Conservatory, Ecole Normale de Musique, Schola Cantorum, Juilliard, etc. A featured artist in numerous National Flute Association Conventions, including a “Saturday Headliner” and a “Generation X All-Stars” concert, she was a Starr Doctoral Fellow at Juilliard and won the coveted Brigham Young University Young Faculty Award.

Kristi Shade began playing the harp at the age of two and has since become one of the preeminent emerging harpists in the industry.  A diverse performer, Kristi performs in a variety of musical settings including classical, jazz, pop, Broadway and contemporary. Kristi is the Principal Harpist with The Chamber Orchestra of New York, with which she has recorded five albums on the Naxos record label. She is a member of the flute-viola-harp trio, Hat Trick, and the harp duo, Duo Scorpio.