“Some in the near-capacity audience were moved to tears” is Robert Miner’s description of flutist Mary Hannigan’s playing at a performance on the “Simply Grand” series at NPR affiliate station WVIA in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. Notable performances include Market Square Summerfest in Harrisburg with the Ying Quartet, the national convention of the Music Teacher’s National Association, and the McGraw-Hill Young Artist’s Showcase for radio WQXR in New York City. She has performed widely across the United States as soloist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician. She has been a member of the Harrisburg Symphony since 1984.

Ms. Hannigan is a faculty member of Dickinson College. She has also taught at Susquehanna University, Bucknell University, Wilkes University and Colorado College. In the summer she is on the faculty of Rocky Ridge Music Center in Colorado and performs on the Music in the Mountains concert series. Her students have won recognition at the national and state level on many occasions: a former student just won the piccolo position in the Chicago Symphony; others have been selected as masterclass performers for the National Flute Association Convention and have performed on National Public Radio’s “From the Top.” Several different students have won first flute in all-state band in Pennsylvania.

Ms. Hannigan’s teachers have been Keith Underwood, Geoffrey Gilbert, Peter Lloyd, and Leone Buyse. She has performed in masterclasses for William Bennett and Marcel Moyse. She holds a Master of Music from Rutgers University and received her B.A. cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Colorado College.