Anjali Shinde is an artist who is deeply invested in sharing intimate moments of connection, understanding, and growth through music. In solo and chamber performance, improvisation, composition, teaching, and mentorship, she channels her innovative spark to create engaging experiences for everyone involved. 

An advocate for new music, she has premiered works by composers including Valerie Coleman, Nathalie Joachim, Tanner Porter, inti figgis-vizueta, Fay Victor, and Levy Lorenzo, as well as original compositions and arrangements with collaborator Matthew Maroon. 

Anjali is a current fellow in Ensemble Connect, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, the Weill Music Institute, and the New York City Department of Education. As part of her fellowship, she brings original interactive performances to schools across the NYC area and upstate NY. She works as a teaching artist at Charles O. Dewey Intermediate School in Brooklyn, inspiring students to explore their artistic and personal development.

Anjali was a founding member of the Westside Chamber Players, having held both flute and piccolo chairs. She also was a mentee in the Orchestra of St. Luke’s Chamber Mentorship Program during the 2021-2022 season, studying with hornist Joseph Anderer. Anjali is a member of acoustic cross-genre folk band Everwild, and their EP can be found on all streaming platforms, with some extras on YouTube. She plays flute + ukulele and sings, and co-wrote Say When. The album art is also her handiwork!

Originally from Orlando, Florida, Anjali holds a bachelor’s degree from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, where she studied with Trudy Kane, Valerie Coleman, and Jennifer Grim. While at Frost, she was named a Donna E. Shalala MusicReach scholar, and through the program, she mentored and taught students from the Miami-Dade area. 

Outside of concert halls, Anjali can sometimes be found busking around Central Park (Belvedere Castle or Greywacke Arch are often good bets). It’s a perfect sweet spot of hanging out, having fun, and delivering uniquely accessible performances without sacrificing quality. 

Anjali believes that artistic creation is a fundamental part of our humanity. Art provides a language with which we can learn more about ourselves and develop techniques for interacting with those around us. In this way, music education is integral to young people’s development of autonomy, problem-solving, and responsibility. Music education has a particularly important role in today’s world, serving as a way for people of all ages to practice long-term growth and slow incremental development in an increasingly short-form oriented society. 

Her top priorities for students are twofold: firstly that they are able to feel safe and empowered to delve into moments of vulnerability, and secondly that they learn new ways to experience and create art that challenge their perceptions while utilizing their preexisting skills, and broadening those into new ones.

As an artist herself, it is of great importance to her to focus energy on youth development. Anjali believes that music education is one of the foremost ways to serve her community and utilize her wide expertise as an educator, program developer, and performer. Working hands-on with students and watching their efforts expand in ways that impact them for life is something Anjali relishes as much, if not more, than any other type of musical work.

Please reach out with any questions or inquiries, or to just say hello! You can use this form, or email anjaliflute@gmail.com.