Bridget Pei has been a member of the Seattle Symphony flute section since the 2023/2024 season. Hailing from Los Angeles, Bridget finished her graduate studies at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music with Leone Buyse in 2023; she received her Bachelor of Music degree at Northwestern University with John Thorne. While in college, Bridget was a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and performed as Principal Flute with the Dubuque Symphony. Since then, she has performed with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony Orchestra and was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts. An avid chamber musician, Pei has collaborated and performed with members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and North Carolina Symphony as part of the Hidden Valley Festival of Winds II in 2022. When not playing flute, Pei spends her time cooking or planning her next multi-day backpacking trip.