Nina Assimakopoulos, Flute

Biography

Internationally acclaimed American flutist Nina Assimakopoulos’ accomplishments include significant theme-based commissioning and
multi-media performance projects to enhance audience connection to classical and contemporary art-music. Among these, "LAURELS:
The twenty-first Century American Women Composers Project" commissions, records, publishes and promotes international
multimedia performances of newly created works by over 150 contemporary American Women Composers in the next ten years with its first release scheduled for 2005.

Assimakopoulos 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 per-formances as principal
flute with the Munich City Opera and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Academy Orchestra, as well as international concerts, radio and T.V.
broadcasts and most recently a solo debut at Carnegie Hall, all of which have won public and critical acclaim.

Ms. Assimakopoulos begins a new appointment as professor of flute at Bowling Green State University, College of Musical Arts in fall of
2004. From 2001-2004, she was professor of flute at the Greatbatch School of Music, Houghton College, in New York. She studied with
Peter Lloyd at Indiana University School of Music, and with Paul Meisen at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich, Germany.