Michelle Caimotto is one of the most respected and well known flute instructors in the Bay Area. Many of Michelle’s students have gone on to study at prestigious institutions and become professional performers and educators themselves. In addition teaching flute and piccolo players of all ages, Michelle is an instructor of Applied Flute at California State University, East Bay, is part of the faculties of Mills College, UC Berkeley Young Musicians Program, and the Northern California Flute Camp.

She is principal flutist of the Festival Opera and West Bay Opera Orchestras, piccoloist of the California Symphony, and a member of the Symphony Silicon Valley. As a freelance musician, she performs with the San Francisco Symphony, Opera and Ballet Orchestras in every chair of the section.  Ms. Caimotto also performs with National Touring Companies of Broadway shows.

Active in the recording industry, her credits include soundtracks for major motion pictures, the SF Asian American, Sundance, and Cannes film festivals, projects for ABC, NBC, Nickelodeon, PBS television, National Public Radio, video game soundtracks, national ads for Clorox, Hershey’s, and more. She can be heard as solo piccoloist on the CBS/Sony Classics CD “Music from the Star Wars Trilogy.”