Flutist and Altus Artist Meret Bitticks maintains an active schedule as a soloist, chamber musician, and clinician in the U.S. and abroad while on faculty at the Music Institute of Chicago and DePaul University. Ms. Bitticks has joined Trio Chicago and Friends for international concert tours, including the United Arab Emirates and Australia, and a member of a Chicago-based woodwind quintet. As an educator, Ms. Bitticks advocates for quality music instruction regardless of age or background. In this capacity, she volunteered at two music camps in Haiti and has taught at several workshops and institutes in the United States and Canada. In 2013 Ms. Bitticks became the first flutist to receive a Certificate of Achievement for excellence in Suzuki instruction from the Suzuki Association of the Americas. She also traveled to Matsumoto, Japan to work with Suzuki Flute Method founder Toshio Takahashi. She is a registered Suzuki Flute Teacher Trainer.Ms. Bitticks studied under Mary Stolper at DePaul University and Katherine Borst Jones at Ohio State to earn her Master's and Bachelor's degrees, respectively. She is on the Board of BLUME Haiti, an organization that promotes leadership skills through music education in Haiti.Specialties: Suzuki flute instruction