Jamie Baum, Flute

Works from Jamie Baum's new CD, In this Life.
 

All dates and programs are subject to change.
This appearance of Altus flute artist Jamie Baum is made possible, in part, through a grant from Altus Flutes.

Admission: Free to NYFC members, $25 for non-members, $15 for students and seniors (65+)
at the door.

Jamie Baum, flutist/composer/recording artist/clinician, has toured the US and over 25 countries in Europe, South America and Asia, working with several renowned musicians including George Russell, Randy Brecker, Donald Brown, Dave Douglas, Fred Hersch and Kenny Barron.

Though focusing primarily on jazz, Jamie has been involved in several projects, performances and tours performing classical, new music, Brazilian, Indian and Latin music. Receiving critical praise for four CD's as a leader, Sight Unheard (with Dave Douglas, Kenny Werner) and Moving Forward, Standing Still on the Omnitone label (with Ralph Alessi, George Colligan) received four stars from DownBeat. Solace (Sunnyside) made several “Best of ’08” lists. Her fifth, In This Life, is due out in October 2013 on Sunnyside and Yard Byard (a CD by the cooperative band) comes out in November on GM Recordings.

Jamie was nominated by the Jazz Journalists Association for “Flutist of the Year “ in 2005, 2006 , 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2013. She has been in the DownBeat Critics Polls annually since ’98, winning No. 1 Rising Star in 2012. Among the many awards for her composing, Baum won the 1999 International Jazz Composers Alliance Award, the 2010 CAP Award (American Music Center), and the 2003 New Works: Creation and Presentation Award and 2007 Encore Award, both components of the Doris Duke/Chamber Music America Jazz Ensembles Project. Through a highly competitive auditioning process, she was chosen to tour for the DOS/Kennedy Center Jazz Ambassador program from 1999 to 2003.

Ms. Baum is an active clinician supported by Altus Flutes (since 1993), offering her ground-breaking “A Fear Free Approach to Improvisation for the Classically Trained Flutist” at many NFA conventions, flute societies, colleges and music and art high schools worldwide. Ms. Baum taught at Berklee College of Music (2011-2013) and has been on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music since 2007.
 

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