Calvin Mayman

5% Gold body with silver mechanism, soldered tone holes, B foot joint, off-set G, C# trill, Split-E, D# roller Purchased at WINDWORKS PHILADELPHIA

Calvin Mayman is a flutist from Ann Arbor, Michigan, currently pursuing an artist diploma at the Colburn Conservatory with Demarre McGill. In 2025, Calvin won the Special Prize at the 11th Kobe International Flute Competition. Additionally, he won first prize in the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia Young Artist Competition and was runner-up in the Rice University Concerto Competition.

Calvin began his flute studies in Michigan with Jaimie Wagner and Jeffery Zook and discovered his love of orchestral playing as a member of the Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, studying with Jeffrey Khaner and a master’s degree from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where he studied with Leone Buyse and Marianne Gedigian. In the summers, he has been a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West, and Aspen Music Festival.

An active orchestral musician, Calvin has played under the batons of conductors including Thomas Adès, Jader Bignamini, Stéphane Denève, Giancarlo Guerrero, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Andris Nelsons, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Andrés Orozco-Estrada with orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, and the Toledo Symphony. As a soloist, he performed the Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 alongside Paul Huang and Nadine Asin at the Aspen Music Festival, the Nielsen Flute Concerto with the Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Grand Rapids Youth Symphony, and the Griffes Poem with the Dearborn Symphony.

Calvin is a proud Haynes Young Artist, and plays a Haynes Custom 5% Gold flute.