Melanie Bradford
Melanie Bradford, principal flutist, joined The Little Orchestra Society twenty years ago. With a college degree in Political Science, she didn't plan a career in music until after graduate school at the Manhattan School of Music. Working in the music business led her to travel to almost all fifty states with the Goldovsky Opera Theatre and the Linden Woodwind Quintet. She spent a glorious summer in Spoleto, Italy and played in Japan for three weeks, visiting both the large cities and more remote towns with the American Symphony Orchestra. In New York City, Melanie is busy playing with many orchestras such as the NY City Ballet, EOS, NJ Symphony, NY Choral Society, Bronx Arts Ensemble, NY Gilbert and Sullivan Players and Mostly Mozart. Today Melanie plays in the pit orchestra in the Broadway show Aida where she also uses bamboo flutes and the bigger alto flute. Previously, Melanie could be heard in Titanic and The King and I, and substituting in The Phantom of the Opera, Jekkyl and Hyde, The Sound of Music and Carousel.
Hear Melanie play the part of the bird in the LOS Grammy-nominated recording of Peter and the Wolf, and in the cast album of Broadway's Aida.
The mother of two daughters, Melanie lives in Soho with artist husband, John.
