The School of Music at West Virginia University is hosting the International Flute Symposium at the Creative Arts Center July 15-19. Internationally-acclaimed flutists Nina Assimakopoulos and Alberto Almarza will be performing in an opening night gala concert on July 15 at 8 p.m. in Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (Room 200A) of the Creative Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public.

The International Flute Symposium is hosted by Nina Assimakopoulos, internationally acclaimed flutist and flute professor at WVU. Assimakopoulos has released five solo CDs and has toured extensively as soloist and masterclass presenter in Europe, Asia, the United States, and South America. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Aaron Copland Fund Grant for New Music Recording, two Fulbright Grants, and the National Society of Arts and Letters Career Award, and has performed with the Munich City Opera, Bavarian Radio Symphony Academy Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Toledo Symphony Orchestra.

This year’s roster of internationally acclaimed teachers also includes Pittsburgh Symphony flutist Lorna McGhee, David B. Houston of the Boston Flute Academy and body mapping specialist Kelly Wilson.

The WVU Symposium offers the widest variety of performances, workshops, and master classes, as well as the largest roster of world-renowned flutists and university professors from the orchestral, classical and jazz fields of any university flute symposium in the United States.

For more information about the International Flute Symposium please visit: http://ifs.wvu.edu/

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CONTACT: Charlene Lattea, College of Creative Arts
304-293-4359, Charlene.Lattea@mail.wvu.edu

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