A versatile performer and music educator, Annie Darlin Gordon is the Principal Flutist of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, second flutist of Queen City Opera, and flutist of the Cincinnati-based woodwind quintet Wayside Winds. She performs regularly with regional ensembles in the Tri-State Area, and has been a guest performer with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Concert:Nova, and Opera Project Columbus. In Fall of 2023, she joined Xavier University as Adjunct Professor of Flute.

As a music educator, Annie is passionate about the cross section of music and equity. In 2015 she joined the staff at MYCincinnati, an El Sistema-inspired, after school music program that offers free, high-quality, and intensive ensemble-based music education to students living in the Price Hill neighborhood. At MYCincinnati, Annie founded the Wind Ensemble program where she is currently the Lead Teaching Artist.

In addition to the traditional classical repertoire, Annie is an avid performer of contemporary repertoire. In 2013 and 2014 she was a Contemporary Ensemble Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival during which she performed dozens of new music works and collaborated frequently with the Aspen Festival’s Composition Fellows. In 2015, she was invited back to her Alma Mater, Carnegie Mellon University, to perform Kaija Saariaho’s “Terrestre” as a soloist with the Contemporary Music Ensemble. During her time at Oberlin Conservatory, she was the winner of the Honors Recital Competition and was invited to perform the Berio Sequenza at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Most recently, Annie was a guest musician with Cincinnati’s Concert:Nova ensemble, where she participated in a world premiere of a commissioned piece by composer Timo Andres.

Annie received her Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance degree from Oberlin Conversatory and received her Master of Music degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Her principal teachers were Alberto Almarza, Jeanne Baxtresser, Alexa Still, Michel Debost, and Kathleen Chastain.

When Annie is not performing or teaching music, she is the director of a non-profit DIY Home Repair workshop program called Do It Yourself Darlin, which offers beginner-level home repair workshops taught by local Cincinnati craftspeople.