Wendy Rolfe is one of the United States' leading performers on historical and modern flutes. She has toured the USA with a Solo Recitalist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, presenting her unique "The Flute Through the Ages". This program illuminates musical history with flutes from her own collection, including an 1818 Claude Laurent crystal flute. Ms. Rolfe also annually tours Brazil, giving recitals and master classes at the Universities of Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Campinas and Rio. In 2005, she was guest artist and professor at the XV International Flute Festival in Quito Ecuador. Currently, Ms Rolfe is engaged in a Berklee College of Music Faculty Fellowship project in Brazil, working with the Flautistas da Pro Arte education program in Rio de Janeiro, and recording a solo CD of Brazilian music for flute and piano with leading Brazilian pianist Maria Jose Carrasqueira.

In 2005, she presented master classes on Baroque improvisation at Louisiana State University, and 2003, she was Artist-in-Residence at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and Guest Artist at the Texas Flute Society Flute Fair. Ms. Rolfe has also presented lecture recitals and master classes in the USA at the San Francisco Conservatory, and the Universities of Michigan, Wisconsin, Youngstown and Kent State, and Ohio State. She has been guest artist at The Flute Society of St. Louis, and the Northern Ohio and Greater Boston Flute Associations.

Ms. Rolfe performs, records and tours with the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, New York's Concert Royal Toronto's Tafelmusik Baroque orchestra, and others. She can be heard with the Hollywood Studio Orchestra on the soundtrack of the Disney/Touchstone film, "Casanova". Other recent recordings are as a guest artist on "Odette", selected by Brazilian Radio MEC (Ministry of Radio and Culture) as its Classical CD release of the year, in the J. S. Bach "Magnificat", with Boston Baroque, released by Telarc in January 2006, and as a featured instrumentalist on the Handel and Haydn Society's "All is Bright" which debuted on the Billboard Classical Charts in December 2005. Ms. Rolfe has recorded for Decca, Telarc, CRI, Neuma and others. She was featured performing on historical flutes from her collection on Ken Burns PBS documentary, "Thomas Jefferson".

Ms Rolfe was a Tanglewood Fellow and has also performed at the Waterloo, Monadnock, and Buzzards Bay Festivals and the Boston Early Music and Connecticut Early Music Festivals.

Ms. Rolfe co-commissioned with a Consortium Commission from the NEA several of the twentieth century's most important works for the flute. With Odyssey, she commissioned and premiered numerous works by Brooklyn composers.

As Director of Odyssey Chamber Players, Ms. Rolfe helped to create and oversaw outreach programs for thousands of schoolchildren in Brooklyn, New York, as part of Odyssey's Residency at the Brooklyn Music School. This Residency was recognized with a prestigious C. Michael Paul Grant from Chamber Music America. In addition, she created outreach programs for elementary through high school students in Wareham, Mass., and performed with Odyssey for Head Start and for senior centers. She wrote and oversaw grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for over a dozen years, grants from the NY State Council on the Arts and the Mass. Cultural Council, from corporations such as Con Edison, Citibank, and Brooklyn Union Gas corporations, and the Edward John Noble, C. M. Paul, Shawmut and Stone Foundations.

While on the Board of Directors of the National Flute Association, Ms. Rolfe was asked to become Chair of the NFA Cultural Outreach Committee, on which she still serves.

Professor of Flute at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, Ms. Rolfe has also taught at Amherst and Mt. Holyoke Colleges. She earned the D.M.A, and M.M. from the Manhattan School of Music with Harvey Sollberger, and the B.M. from the Oberlin Conservatory with Robert Willoughby.