Flutist Aimee Toner is dedicated to relationship-building through music-making and expanding the scope and accessibility of the musical arts.

As a Northeastern nomad, Aimee thrives in regular transit between Boston, Providence, New York City, and New Haven for her performance and teaching endeavors.

Toner’s performance experience has involved serving as flutist and piccolo player in orchestras including the Norwalk Symphony, the Enigma Chamber Opera Orchestra, the Glens Falls Symphony, the New Amsterdam Opera, and the Du Bois Symphony, and collaborating in chamber groups that have ranged from jazz trios in Italian restaurants to wind quintets on stage at Carnegie Hall. Aimee made her solo debut with the Columbia University Orchestra in April of 2019, where she performed “Poem” for flute and orchestra as the winner of the 2018 concerto competition. Aimee then headlined a contracted solo recital series along the East Coast in 2019, where she performed in St Simons Georgia and Jamestown NY, and has since joined the artist roster for continued recital performances with the Lyric Chamber Music Society. Toner is honored to represent Wm S. Haynes Co. as a Haynes Young Artist ,and plays on a custom silver Haynes Flute.

Aimee is a graduate of the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Cynthia Meyers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for her Master’s in Flute Performance and obtained a concentration in Music in Education. Toner is also a graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University (Phi Beta Kappa), where she majored in Ethnomusicology and Economics.

In line with her performance values, Aimee is dedicated to the accessibility of classical music, and has expressed this passion through her work as a teaching artist at the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School, the Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras, and Arts for Learning Connecticut, as founder of the “Music in Motion” chamber series and “Virtual School Song” project, and as the Manager of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra’s Marketing and Fundraising initiatives.

Aimee currently lives in New Haven, Connecticut with her rescue cats Billie and Butternut. She enjoys taking bike rides, exploring photography, and finding four leaf clover along the way.