Double Play flute and tuba has been active as a performing/touring ensemble since 1989.  Although based in Phoenix, Arizona; this husband and wife team travels the country extensively each year, entertaining and educating audiences of all ages in a variety of venues from concert halls to classrooms.  Performances include the music of “Bach to Broadway,“ accompanied by a variety of humorous and historical anecdotes.  As part of their mission to inform as well as to entertain, demonstrations on a Baroque flute and “hose-horn” are integral to each “family-friendly” program. Amy Ridings, flutist, and Patrick Sciannella, tubaist, create their own unique arrangements of many classical standards as well as presenting the occasional, actual flute and tuba composition!

Amy Ridings and Patrick ScianellaAmy Ridings, flutist, is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and a former member of Quintessence Chamber Ensemble. Formerly principal flutist of Michigan's Macomb Symphony; she has appeared as soloist with the New American Chamber Orchestra and the Bach Aria Group.

Patrick Sciannella, tubaist, holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Eastman School of Music and is a former member of the Genesee and Southwest Brass Quintets.  He has performed with the Phoenix and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestras.


Celebrating their 20th anniversary as the world’s only full-time, professional flute and tuba duo; Double Play’s resume includes appearances in forty-five states, the District of Columbia and Mexico. Examples of current program offerings are: “Musical Mural” and “Baroque and Beyond” for inter-generational audiences….. to “Musical Mysteries” and “Great Stories in Music” for libraries and schools.



Numbered among their recent performances are appearances at Arizona State University, the University of South Dakota (Vermillion), the Carnegie Library (Pittsburgh), the Children’s Museum of Phoenix, Reinhardt College (Waleska, Georgia) and in collaboration with Marshall University in Huntington, W. Virginia. In addition Double Play has performed as concerto soloists with community bands in Riverton (Wyoming); and with the Sun City Concert Band and Sierra Vista Symphony (Arizona). Their discography includes four recordings: Old, New, Borrowed for Two; Summer 2001; Impossible Dream; and Tunes for Two.