Michelle Stanley

Biography

Michelle Batty Stanley is Interim Vice Provost of Undergraduate Affairs and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University.

Her faculty roles involves teaching graduate students in flute for the School of Music, Theatre and Dance.

Michelle is a performer of solo, chamber and orchestral music and has been praised for her “fine breath control and offers subtlety in playing and a strong sense of the long, lyrical lines" . She is a regular international artist and has enjoyed giving performances and masterclasses throughout the U.S., Russia, Japan, China, France, England, Scotland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary, and Russia. She has been on the faculty of the Interharmony Music Festival in Italy for several seasons.

Michelle regularly performed with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, and was principal flute for the Pro Musica chamber orchestra and the Colorado Bach Ensemble. She was the second flutist/piccolo player with the Colorado Ballet Orchestra from 2008-2013. She has presented and performed for the National Flute Convention (2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 in Salt Lake City, 2018 in Orlando, 2017 in Minneapolis, 2016 in San Diego, 2012 in Las Vegas, 1999 in Atlanta), College Music Society Regional and National Conferences, Colorado Music Educators Association conference (2010, 2013, 2018, 2019), and Music Teachers National Association State and National conferences. She has performed at the Berkeley Early Music Festival, and spent five seasons as the second flutist with the Colorado Music Festival orchestra.

She has commissioned and premiered more than 30 works from composers throughout the United States. Her first CD of newly commissioned chamber music was released by Centaur Records in 2006 and her second recording of French flute music was released by Navona records in 2018. Michelle is the flutist in Quatra Duo, a flute and guitar duo released an album contemporary flute and guitar which was released by Navona records in September of 2020. A forthcoming album with Quadra Duo will be released in 2026.

In addition to her active performing career, Dr. Stanley is the author of an online music appreciation textbook published by Great River Technologies called Music Appreciation: Successful Listening in All Music. This text is used at CSU for more than 3,000 students each year.

Michelle received a M.M. and D.M.A. in flute performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder and received a B.A. in Music from the University of New Hampshire. She also attended Trinity College of Music in London where she studied with Anne Cherry.