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.
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 released on Capstone Records.
In addition to her work as a musician, Assimakopoulos is a 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.
