Dr. Richard Soule is Principal Flutist of the Las Vegas Philharmonic, a founding member of the Sierra Winds, and Professor of Flute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the recipient of the 2002 UNLV Distinguished Teaching Award and currently serves as President of the National Flute Association.

Dr. Soule is a former member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the U.S. Naval Academy Band. As a member of the Sierra Winds, he has traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad, has released three CD albums for Cambria Records and received the 1993 Governor's Arts Award for Excellence in the Arts from the State of Nevada. As a soloist he has appeared with numerous orchestras around the U.S. and maintains an active schedule as a recitalist and clinician. In May of 1996 he and harpsichordist John Metz toured southern France, performing at the national conservatories of Nice and Aix-en-Provence. He returned to France in August of 1999 as a faculty member for the Stage Esticadences, teaching flute and coaching chamber music. His solo CD, Runes: American Music for Flute and Harpsichord, was recently released on the Troppe Note label.

Dr. Soule has published articles and reviews in The Flutist Quarterly, Notes: The Journal of the Music Library Association, and The Emerson Flute Forum. He is founder and past president of the Las Vegas Flute Club and was a member of the 1989 National Flute Association delegation to the former Soviet Union. He has served the National Flute
Association as a two-term member of the Board of Directors and as Vice President/Chair of the Nominating Committee. He is the Founder and former Network Administrator of NFA Online, the official web site of the National Flute Association. He also served as Chair of the NFA Information/Technology and gave five years of service as Flute Clubs Coordinator. He is the former director of Chamber Music Southwest and a former Chair of the UNLV Department of Music. A graduate of Boston University and the Peabody Conservatory, his teachers include Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Britton Johnson, James Pappoutsakis, and Ruth Freeman.

"Richard Soule makes the flute sing with singular brilliance. His lyrical freedom...was inspiring."
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

"The star of the afternoon was Richard Soule, soloist in the Mozart Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in G Major..."
NEW BRITAIN HERALD

"...extraordinary clarity..."
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

...iridescent tone..."
LAS VEGAS SUN

"His tone was pure, his phrasing was splendid..."
RENO EVENING GAZETTE

"...Soule displayed a tone that was satiny, not shrill, and had no trouble balancing his part against the orchestra's sound, no matter what register he played in."
NEW BRITAIN HERALD

"...clarion but sensitive sound..."
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL

"Flute soloist Richard Soule turned in an amazing performance. Although the score bristles with difficulties, he played with absolute assurance and authority."
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

"Clean articulation was particularly evident in the first movement's athletic, chromatic cadenza."
NEW BRITAIN HERALD

"...Richard Soule gave a stunning performance of Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2 in D...Soule's crystalline tone made the music seem as effortless as a bird singing its greeting to the world."
ST. GEORGE (UT) SPECTRUM