Commissioning Artist
Nina Assimakopoulos
"Assimakopoulos has not just perfect technique and total breath control but supreme intelligent, elegant phrasing; broad tone color; lyricism; a full range of dynamic expression; and above all STYLE that paints the differences from Bach to Bartok..."
- Gil French, American Record Guide/ Classical Producer WXXI-FM
NINA ASSIMAKOPOULOS Internationally acclaimed American flutist Nina Assimakopoulos is a visionary artist whose accomplishments include significant theme-based commissioning and multi-media performance projects realized to enhance audience connection to classical and contemporary art-music.
Assimakopoulos is the recipient of two Fulbright Grants, the National Society of Arts and Letters Career Award, the Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Endowment, and the Munich Academy of Music Meisterklasse Certificate. Career highlights include performances as principal flute with the Munich City Opera and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Academy Orchestra, as well as international concerts, radio and TV. broadcasts and most recently a solo debut at Carnegie Hall all of which have won public and critical acclaim.
Assimakopoulos is Assistant Professor of Flute at Bowling Green State University College of Musical Arts, Bowling Green Ohio. From 2001-2004 she was professor of flute at the Greatbatch School of Music, Houghton College, in New York. Assimakopoulos studied with Peter Lloyd at the Indiana University School of Music and Paul Meisen at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, Germany.
"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
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