Kristin Renee Hurley - Jupiter Academy of Music Faculty
Our degreed faculty members are accomplished musicians with experience teaching music to students of all ages.FLUTE
Born in Rockville Centre, on New York's Long Island, Kristin started taking flute lessons at the age of nine. She holds the degrees Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts in Music, both from Florida Atlantic University. She has also completed one year of doctoral work at FAU in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Ph.D. in Comparative Studies program, Fine and Performing Arts track.
Founded in 2003, Kristin plays classical music with the Woodwind Trio of the Palm Beaches, whose performance venues include schools, churches, museums, country clubs, hospitals, private parties, wedding receptions, and other events in and around Palm Beach County. In recent years she has studied chamber music with Dr. Ken Keaton, Professor of Music at FAU, playing in a flute and classical guitar duo. Currently, she is a member of The Cuvier Trio, a Consort-In-Residence in the Department of Music at FAU, performing music from the Renaissance and Baroque Periods, with Dr. Keaton on guitar, Dr. Petuch on recorder, and Ms. Hurley on flute.
Kristin teaches flute students of all ages, specializing in instruction for beginning and intermediate students. Over the years she has taught flute privately, has worked with students at elementary and middle schools in the county, and has taught lessons and sectionals as well as other music classes at FAU’s TOPS Junior Band Camp.
Since 2006, Ms. Hurley has served as coordinator of the Ress Family Healing by Music Project, based out of FAU's Boca Raton campus, in which she schedules music students to perform for patients in clinical settings all over the tri-county area. She is a passionate advocate of music education, noting that any involvement in music-making can be beneficial mentally, emotionally, physically and socially; and she firmly believes that we do not yet fully understand the power of music as a creative outlet and as a therapeutic tool.