A native of Billings, Leonard Garrison is Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Idaho, Vice Chair of the National Flute Association, Principal Flutist of the Walla Walla Symphony, and flutist in The Scott/Garrison Duo. In summers, he teaches and performs at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and the Red Lodge Music Festival. His recent CD, ³Superflute² has received rave reviews. Flute Talk magazine called it ³astounding,² The Flute Network said ³his performance was ³just Œsuperior¹ both in brilliant technique and musicianship,² while the Dutch journal Fluit called it ³Altogether a beautiful CD, which becomes more captivating after repeated hearings.²

Garrison has been flutist in the Chicago Symphony (including a 2004 tour of Japan) and the Tulsa Philharmonic, soloist on National Public Radio's "Performance Today," winner of the 2003 Byron Hester Competition, concerto soloist on both flute and piccolo, and a frequent performer at National Flute Association conventions. He has taught at The University of Tulsa, Bowling Green State University, the University of Arkansas, and the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. The Flutist Quarterly and Flute Talk have published his articles.

Leonard holds a Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University, where he studied with Walfrid Kujala and Richard Graef. He received Master of Music and Master of Arts degrees from The State University of New York at Stony Brook, studying with Samuel Baron. His Bachelor of Music is from The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where his teacher was Robert Willoughby.