Leslie Marrs is Assistant Professor of Flute at Drake University. Dr. Marrs has performed as a chamber musician from the nation's capital to New Delhi and Oxford, and has been featured as Soloist with the Bay View Festival Orchestra, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Orchestra, and the United States Army Field Band, and has performed as a competition winner at National Flute Association conventions. She was a winner of the NFA Dissertation Competition, and presented "Integrating Extended Techniques into Flute Pedagogy: A Resource Guide for Flutists, Teachers, and Composers" at the 2005 NFA convention in San Diego.
Dr. Marrs's interest in contemporary music has led to performances of new music at the College Music Society annual conferences as a member of the CMS players. As a former board member and vice-president of the Baltimore Composers Forum, she premiered several works for composers in the Baltimore-Washinton, D.C. area. She has also hosted her own radio show, Music from Marrs, for WHFC in Harford County, Maryland. Dr. Marrs earned her D. M. A. at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, her M. M. from Florida State University and B. M. from Virginia Commonwealth University. Flute teachers include Mark Sparks, Charles DeLaney, Deborah Egekvist, Francile Bilyeu, and Tim Day. She can be heard on James Brody's Background Count, released on the Furious Artisans label, as well as Consolation, for Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Greensboro, NC.
