Skip Healy's Professional Highlights

Concerts/ Performances

1982 -- Featured performer on American fife - Swiss National Quadrennial Drum Competition (Switzerland).

1982 -- Featured performer as member of Ancient Mariners - Roman Amphitheatre (Kaiser Augst, Augst, Switzerland).

1984 -- Featured performer as member of Ancient Mariners - Roman Amphitheatre (Kaiser Augst, Augst, Switzerland).

1986 -- Performance on Irish Flute with conductor Peter Maag and the Bern Philharmonic Orchestra (Bern, Switzerland).

1993 -- Solo performance of traditional Irish flute music at Roman Catholic Chapel of St. John - Celebration of St. Patrick (Cashel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland).

1994 -- Solo performance of traditional Irish flute music at the St. Nikolaikirche Cathedral (Hamburg, Germany).

1995 -- Solo performance at "An Immigrant's Return" Concert (Bru Boru Center, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland).

1996 -- Solo Concert of American fife & Irish flute at the Basel Conservatory of Music (Basel, Switzerland).

1998 -- Performance on Irish Flute with string section of Budapest Symphony (Budapest, Hungary).

2003 -- Solo Concert & Lecturer at University of South Alabama (sponsored by Dr. Andra Bohnet, Flute Professor, University of S. Alabama).

2003 -- Featured Flute Performer & Clinician at University of Central Florida - Visiting Artist Series (sponsored by Dr. Nora Lee Garcia - Director of Flute Studies).

2004 -- Flute Masterclass and concert sponsored by greater Washington Flute Choir, Washington, D.C.

Festivals

1980-1982 -- Piccolo Spoleto - featured performer on flute & fife (Charleston, SC).

1982 -- Pfyffer Daj - featured performer on American fife with the Swiss Mariners (Ribeauville, France).

1984 -- Pfyffer Daj - featured performer on American fife with the Swiss Mariners (Ribeauville, France).

1985 -- New England Irish Festival - featured performer on flute & fife (Schaeffer Stadium, Foxboro, MA).

1986 -- Festival of Pipers - featured performer on flute & fife (Quebec City, Canada).

1989 -- Irish Traditional Music Festival - featured performer on flute & fife (Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY).

1992 -- Traditional Music Festival - featured performer on flute & fife (Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY).

1996 -- Greater Boston Flute Association - "Flute Music from Around the World" featured performer on Irish flute.

1997 -- Greater Boston Flute Association - "Flute Music from Around the World" featured performer on Irish flute with Liam Harney (World Champion Irish Dancer).

2000 -- West Coast Tionol - Principal Flute Instructor (Seattle, WA).

2001 -- West Coast Flute Symposium - featured performer, flute maker, and instructor (Seattle, WA).

2001 -- Newport Waterfront Irish Festival - featured performer on flute & fife (Newport, R.I.).

2002 -- Wind On The Bay East Coast Flute Symposium (East Greenwich, R.I.) - Founder, Instructor, Performer, Flute Maker.

2003 -- Wind On The Bay East Coast Flute Symposium (East Greenwich, R.I.) - Founder, Instructor, Performer, Flute Maker.

2004 -- Wind On The Bay East Coast Flute Symposium (East Greenwich, R.I.) - Founder, Instructor, Performer, Flute Maker.

2003 -- Blackstone River Celtic Music Festival, featured performer (Uxbridge, MA.).

2003 -- Cape Cod Music Festival, featured performer and instructor (Cape Cod, MA.).

2003 -- Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival, featured performer (Mystic, CT.).

2004 -- Cape Cod Music Festival, featured performer and instructor (Cape Cod, MA.).

2004 -- Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival, featured performer (Mystic, CT.).

Mixed Media Performances

1992 -- Johnny Cunningham (traditional Scottish fiddle) & Skip Healy (Irish flute) with Gerald Trimble on ten-string cittern, at the West Courtwright Center (East Meridith, NY).

1993 -- Berkeley College of Music - guest performer on Irish flute & fife.

1993 -- "Folk - In The Celtic Tradition" - featured performer on Irish flute with various musicians and dancers - Stone Soup Folk Arts Foundation (Providence, RI).

1993 -- Celtic Festival at the Hatch Shell - featured performer on Irish flute with various artists and step-dancers (Boston, MA).

1993 -- New World Festival at Chandler - featured performer on Irish flute with various artists (Randolph, VT).

1985-2003 -- Featured guest artist with Celtic band "Pendragon" and All-Irish Step-Dance Champions, Kieran Jordan and Kevin Doyle.