An eclectic flutist and composer, Ammon Swinbank* can be heard playing contemporary classical, jazz, blues, rock, electroacoustic and freely improvised music.

Ammon’s years as a budding professional were spent in Denver where they were a part of “Railroad Street Jazz West” and the flute choir of Metropolitan State University. They also began teaching beginning flutists while continuing to perform around Denver and writing their first flute pieces: “Chromatic Solo” and “Deep Freeze.”

In addition to forming their own free music ensemble with Katie Levine and Julio Lopez, Ammon has performed with Eric Barber as part of “Hush, Stephen Fandrich, Anthony Cammarota and Michaud Savage.

Ammon has performed at New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Make Music New York, Spectrum, Scholes Street Studio, Loewe Theatre, the Williamsburg Music Center and the National Opera Center with the New York Composer’s Circle and as part of Aarzu, an experimental dance show written and directed by Aliya Kerim which premiered at Under St. Mark’s Theater in the East Village, NYC.  

Ammon received a bachelor of music in flute performance from Cornish College of the Arts and earned two master of music degrees from New York University, Steinhardt—one in flute performance and the other in jazz studies.

While attending NYU, they composed the jazz tune “Phantom Orchid” which appears on their first commercial album, “Big Apple Bonkers,” released on the MEII Enterprises label.

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*Ammon prefers the gender neutral pronounces they/them.