Jasmine Choi, NY Flute Club

Sun, Nov 4, 2012 @ 5:30pm

Flutist Jasmine Choi is the principal flutist of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. A native of Korea, she is a critically-acclaimed active soloist on international stages, a chamber musician, and a full-time orchestral musician. At the age of 22, she was appointed Associate Principal Flute of the Cincinnati Symphony under the music director Paavo Jarvi and became the first Korean woodwind player to hold a post with a major orchestra in the US. Nominated by Symphony magazine as one of "America's Emerging Artists", Jasmine Choi was presented on the "Rising Stars" series at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. Recent performances include solo recitals at Wigmore Hall in London, Konzerthaus Schubert Saal in Vienna, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, and Hoam Art Hall and Kumho Art Hall in Seoul. She has also performed as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Salzburg Mozarteum, Czech Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, KBS Symphony, Musikverein Golden Hall in Vienna, Konzerthaus Mozart Saal in Vienna, Dvorak and Smetana Halls in Prague, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, and in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and has performed the concertos of Devienne, Haydn, Ibert, Jolivet, Liebermann, Mercadante, Mozart, Nielsen, Reinecke, Vivaldi, as well as Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 2, Bizet-Borne's Carmen Fantasy, her arrangements of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, and Vivaldi's Four Seasons, among others. Her commissions include works by Korean-American composers Solbong Kim and James Ra, and she frequently performs the works of Isang Yun. An exclusive Sony Classical artist in Korea, her recordings "Jasmine Choi Plays Mozart" and "Fantasy" received rave reviews and her next album will be released by summer of 2012.

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NY FLUTE CLUB SEASON at BPAC:

Oct 14 @ 5:30pm:  Paul Fried

Nov 4 @ 5:30pm:  Jasmine Choi

Dec 16 @ 5:30pm:  Hubert Laws

Jan  13 @ 5:30pm:  Sooyun Kim

Feb 10 @ 5:30pm:  TBA

Mar 17 @ 5:30pm:  Lorna McGhee

Apr 21 @ 5:30pm:  NY Flute Club Competition Winners