Worry Group Meetings

Worry group meetings are currently on hiatus. If they resume in the future, additional information will be posted here as well as on Instagram and Facebook!

-Francesca Leo, Founder of Playing Without Pain

About the Hosts:

Francesca Leo is a cutting edge flutist, educator, MBA candidate, and performing arts health advocate. She is the founder of www.playingwithoutpain.com, an award-winning interactive website and social media platform committed to connecting musicians with resources to treat and prevent performance-related injuries. Francesca is currently on the Board of Directors for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Wood County, the National Flute Association Performance Health Care Committee and the Performing Arts Medicine Association Young Professionals Committee, and serves as the chair of the Puerto Rico Flute Symposium Wellness Committee. She holds a masters degree in flute performance from the Manhattan School of Music and a bachelors degree from Bowling Green State University (BGSU), and is currently pursuing a Master in Business Administration at BGSU.

Baltazar Díaz Dávila (available for Spanish translation) is a native of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, MX. Baltazar received a Bachelor's degree of flute performance from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and a Master's degree in flute performance from the University of Missouri Kansas City's Conservatory of Music and Dance. He is currently a part of the Cohort of the Orchestra of the America's OAcademy 2021, where he is pursuing an Artist Diploma in Orchestral Performance and Digital Creation as a part of Leone Buyse's flute studio. He has participated in festivals such as Fresno Orchestral and Opera Summer Academy (FOOSA), Festival de Musica de Santiago de Queretaro, Mostly Modern Music Festival, and Orchestra of the Americas. ​ Baltazar currently holds the position of co-principal flute at the Guanajuato Symphony and is the flute instructor at the Jovenes Lideres Youth Symphony, in Leon, MX. He also serves as woodwind faculty for the Tamaulipas Symphonic Youth Festival. Baltazar is the official translator for the Puerto Rico Flute Symposium.