CD Recording


"The level of talent in the project, in both composers and performer, is exceedingly high. Nina Assimakopoulos is dynamic in her endeavor, intelligent and sensitive in her approach to new music, and a thrilling and flawless flutist."

- Binnette Lipper, Laurels 2004-2005 Roster Composer


"It is a privilege to have my musical ideas interpreted by an artist with the brilliant technique, lush tone quality and musical sensitivity of Nina Assimakopoulos."

- Winifred Hyson, Laurels 2004-2005 Roster Composer


"Flutist Nina Assimakopoulos is a gifted musician and an inspiration to me as a composer."

- Tania Gabrielle French, Laurels 2004-2005 Roster Composer


The LAURELS 2004-2005 solo flute works are recorded by flutist and commissioning artist Nina Assimakopoulos on "LAURELS Volume One", a two-set CD approximating 130 minutes in length and printed and distributed through Euterpe Recordings. Euterpe Recordings, houses the long term printing and distribution of each LAURELS volumes as follows: 2004-2005, Vol. I; 2007-2008, Vol. II; 2010-2011. Vol. III; 2013- 2014, Vol. IV; and 2016-2017, Vol. V.

With each composition five minutes and under in duration, the 2-set, one volume CD has the its capacity for a broad representation of works (32 total) by significant American women composers. The LAURELS Volume One inaugural CD combines five previously commissioned works receiving their first recording, as well as Katherine Hoover's Kokopelli*, with the LAURELS 2004-2005 new works.

The LAURELS CD Recordings provide its roster composers with a mutually supportive platform for greater visibility and dissemination of their artistic works benefiting composers wishing to generate commissioning interest in the internationally active and well supported flute community.

Reciprocally, flutists seeking introduction contemporary literature are introduced to a broad cross section of American women composers through this one-of-its-kind recording anthology. In addition to a present-day significance, the LAURELS 2004-2005 CD preserves artistically informed interpretations of contemporary works resulting from the direct collaboration between the LAURELS roster Composers and commissioning artist Nina Assimakopoulos.

The LAURELS multiple year project plan encompasses the recording of five complete LAURELS anthologies, each housing literature-based works for solo flute by rosters of 30 newly commissioned American Women Composers each. The CDs emerge in two-year cycles with a plan for their ongoing printing and distribution as outlined in paragraph one above.

The LAURELS CDs are packaged with survey and mailing list inserts used for measuring project impact, enlisting increased participation, and improving future project plans. The LAURELS CDs are part of a correlative body of work supporting the LAURELS objectives to:

  • Promote the visibility of contemporary American women art-music composers and role models in the arts
  • Document the professional journeys and artistic philosophies of American Women art-music composers
  • Support the commissioning, promotion, and international dissemination of flute literature by American Women Composers
  • Generate greater interest in and awareness of their work
  • Assemble multidimensional documentation and curricular reference material critically needed by educational institutions, libraries, media, and concert programming venues
  • Foster audience aesthetic and intellectual connection to twenty-first century art music,
  • Explore the integration of music and literature affirming the national standards for Arts Education's "Correlation and Integration" goals


* Kokopelli is significance as the first contemporary solo flute work by an American woman composer ever to be recorded more than once.


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