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Elena Yarritu has been a guest artist at the National Flute Association Convention, and the Texas Flute Society's Annual Flute Festival in 2007 as winner for the 2006 Myrna Brown Competition. Highlights of Dr. Yarritu's career include a 2003 New York premier of Mike Mower's Sonata No. 3 at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall sponsored by Artists International Presentations, a Merkin Hall debut in 2006 with the Alma Ensemble presenting Samuel Zyman's Sonata for flute and piano. Dr. Yarritu has also performed as a solo recitalist and chamber musician in Europe including France, Scandinavia, The Netherlands and places as far away as Estonia and Moldova. In 2002, Yarritu was featured soloist with the National Philharmonic of Moldova in a performance of Mozart's Flute concerto in D. Yarritu is also a regular guest lecturer and performer at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Years of devotion educating young musicians, has culminated in an annual summer master class for advanced high school and college level students in Saratoga, California. Dr. Yarritu has earned degrees from San Jose State University, Yale University and Stony Brook University. Her former mentors include Jill Felber, Isabelle Chapuis-Starr, Ransom Wilson, Alain Marion, Lloyd Gowen and Bart Feller. Dr. Yarritu is currently a freelance flutist, teaching and performing in San Diego, California.