Internationally acclaimed 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. She 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 and radio broadcasts which have won public and critical acclaim. Solo performances include her New York Solo Debut at Carnegie Hall, The Alden Theater “Rising Stars” Concert Series in Washington, D.C., the “Dame Myra Hess Radio Broadcast Concert Series” in Chicago and the “Live from Hochstein” radio broadcast concert series in Rochester, New York.

She is Assistant Professor of Flute at the College of Musical Arts, Bowling Green State University where she has taught since 2004 and is active as a concert soloist, recording artist and master class facilitator. Recent master classes given include guest artist appearances at Eastman School of Music; University of North Texas; University Illinois at Champagne-Urbana; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Michigan; University of California, Sacramento; Interlochen Arts Academy; Michigan State University; Flute Festival Mid-South; Great Lakes Flute Festival; and the National Music Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria.

Assimakopoulos has commissioned and premiered internationally the works of over 40 contemporary composers, and is the recipient of numerous recording grants including the Aaron Copland Fund Grant for New Music Recording. Her solo recordings include Flute Impressions and Arcadian Murmurs released on the Euterpe Label and Points of Entry, Works for Solo Flue by American Women Composers, Vol. I and Vol. II released on Capstone Records. Her recording Chrome is scheduled for release in December 2010 and features contemporary works for solo flute that explore the vast spectrum of sounds and timbres that can be made on the flute.

In addition to her work as a musician, Assimakopoulos is an integrative-arts performer and prize-winning painter whose work has been exhibited at museums and in internationally juried shows.

Nina Assimakopoulos studied under Peter Lloyd at the Indiana University School of Music and Paul Meisen at the Munich Academy of Music.

"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.