Lance Sanford, a native of Flower Mound, Texas, teaches flute in the Dallas area and performs with various ensembles, including the Dallas Opera Orchestra.  He earned a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Arts from West Texas A&M and a Master of Music from The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.  He was a winner in the 1994 Yamaha Young Performing Artist competition, and won first place in both the 1995 Flute Talk Competition and the 2001 Myrna W. Brown Artist Competition.  His teachers include Sally Turk, Leone Buyse, and Helen Blackburn.