The New York Flute Fair

The 2012 New York Flute Fair

with guest artist Amy Porter

Saturday, March 24, 2012
DiMenna Center for Classical Music
450 West 37th Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues), 
New York, NY

Kaoru Hinata, Program Chair

Please email all flute fair proposals to kaoruhin@gmail.com.

Companies interested in exhibiting at the 2012 Flute Fair may download the Corporate Sponsorship Form. Please contact Keith Bonner with questions regarding Corporate Membership.

Flutists ages 18 to 27 are invited to compete in the annual New York Flute Club Competition, a prestigious event that has been held each spring for more than thirty-five years. Preliminary and final auditions will be held at the Fair on Saturday, March 24, 2012.

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Guest Artist Amy Porter first leapt to international attention winning the Kobe International Flute Competition in Japan. She is a touring concert artist who performs recitals in the major concert halls of Asia and the United States with pianist Christopher Harding. Ms. Porter has been heard in recital on National Public Radio, and highlighted on PBS Live From Lincoln Center. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Ms. Porter is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York where she received a full scholarship for her degrees as well as fellowships to Tanglewood and The Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria. Her teachers at Juilliard were Samuel Baron and Jeanne Baxtresser, and in Austria her teachers were Alain Marion and Peter-Lukas Graf. After Juilliard, she held the position of Associate Principal Flute in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for eight years before becoming Professor of Flute at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance in Ann Arbor. She is the founder and Past President of the non-profit Southeast Michigan Flute Association. She is founder of the popular workshop, "Amy Porter's Anatomy of Sound" held annually in Ann Arbor with Professor of Theatre (Movement) Jerald Schwiebert.

The New York Flute Club held its first flute fair in 1994 and has held a fair in most of the following years. The event features a rich array of concerts, workshops, and lectures, the annual competition, and industry exhibits. Featured themes, guest artists, and honorees have been: