Combining comprehensive music instruction with a touch of
peak performance training, Michael Davis offers an imaginative
and well balanced approach to teaching music that provides
many students with their best chance for success. Whether you're
looking for help with chronic challenges, a beginner who wants
to avoid problems from the start, or you're a seasoned
professional with a desire to take your career to the next level, you
owe it to yourself to investigate well-balanced instruction and see
what it can do for you.
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Michael Davis is an award-winning flutist, composer and teacher in the Twin Cities, Minnesota area, who
performs on flutes of silver, cedar, glass and bamboo. He received his bachelor of music degree from the
University of South Carolina where, as a freshman, he was entered in the Music Teacher's National
Association collegiate woodwinds competition and won the national first prize. With advanced degrees
from the Eastman School of Music and Columbia University, he has taught flute and advanced aural
skills at Iowa State University and served as piccolo soloist with the United States Military Academy
Band at West Point. Dr. Davis is a performing artist member of Thursday Musical and a two time prize
winning finalist for the prestigious McKnight Fellowship for Performing Artists. As a composer, his
music has been performed all over the United States and in Canada and Europe, on music faculty recitals

and by nationally and internationally recognized music ensembles like Zeitgeist and the Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus. In
addition to being an MMTA master certified teacher of flute and music theory, he has taught professional development and
success strategies to business majors at National American University, where (certified by the Pacific Institute), he also
served as an Investment in Excellence facilitator. Former students include college professors, amateur and semi professional
musicians, composers and music directors from coast to coast.
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