Dr. Wendy Bergin
Assistant Professor,
Interim Department Head
Flute, Flute Choir, Ear-training, Music Theory
wibergin@pvamu.edu

    Dr. Wendy Isaac Bergin, Assistant Professor of Music at Prairie View A&M, currently serves as Interim Head of the Department of Music & Drama. Principal Flute of the Opera in the Heights Orchestra since 2001, she is a graduate of McNeese State University and the University of Houston. Her teachers, to whom she is much indebted, were Patricia Bulber and Byron Hester. After graduating she moved to New York, where she studied flute with Samuel Baron and Harold Bennett, and was a member of the Mannes School’s Mozart Opera Project Orchestra and the New York Sinfonia. During the three years she lived in Stockholm, she recorded several solo and chamber music works for the Swedish National Radio, and was a member of Skärholmens Kammarorkester. Locally, she has performed as flute soloist with the Baytown and Brazosport Symphony Orchestras, and as a recorder player with Houston Grand Opera, the J. S. Bach Society Orchestra, and the Victoria Bach Festival. She is the founder and Co-Artistic Director of the Summer Music Festival at Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Charles, LA. Her novel The Elf King, a story of war, music, and the supernatural, was published as a serial by the literary journal Bellowing Ark (Seattle, 2004-05).