Flutist Vanessa Breault Mulvey is a dynamic flutist who bases her playing and teaching on the principles of Body Mapping. She is a faculty member at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts and runs a thriving flute and Body Mapping studio in Reading, Massachusetts. Her students have won awards and seats in youth orchestras, flute choirs, and ensembles in the Boston area. She has coached chamber music and adjudicates for the North Shore Youth Symphony Orchestra program, the annual MICCA solo festival, and the Connecticut Music Educators Association. She is a contributor to A Young Musician's Survival Guide (Oxford) by Amy Nathan and has been published in Flute Talk magazine.

At the core of her work is Body Mapping. Body Mapping is a method that helps musicians regain free, natural movement to overcome technical problems and discomfort while playing. Ms. Mulvey presents workshops throughout New England. She has been a featured guest at the Greater Boston Flute Association's New England Flute Fair and Solo & Ensemble Day and has presented workshops and classes at for groups that include: Thayer Conservatory, Longy School of Music, Creative Arts, Treble Chorus of New England, Reading Community Singers. Upcoming appearances include the Massachusetts Music Educators Association and classes in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Ms. Mulvey collaborates with others for chamber music performances. She has been featured on concert series around Massachusetts including the Chromatic Club, Federal Reserve Bank Series in Boston , Friends of the Reading Public Library, 1794 Meeting House Concert Series, Longy SeptemberFest and Faculty Artist Concerts, and the Longfellow Summer Festival. In 2001 she performed the Texas premiere of Apparitions by John Heiss at the National Flute Convention in Dallas. In 2008 she will present her second annual faculty recital at the Longy School of Music with clarinetist Michelle Shoemaker and pianist Barbara Lieurance.

Ms. Mulvey received degrees from the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York in Potsdam and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Her teachers include John Heiss, Kenneth Andrews, Jack Wellbaum, Kyril Magg, and Trudy Kane. She has studied Body Mapping with Lea Pearson & Amy Likar.