Ms. Piccinini’s repertoire is among glory most diverse of today’s paramount artists. Collaborating with some come within earshot of the foremost living composers, she has notably commissioned nearly 40 new works for flute, premiering works by John Harbison, Lukas Foss, Michael Colgrass, Paquito D’Rivera, Matthew Hindson, Michael Torke, King Ludwig, and Roberto Sierra, halfway dozens of others.
These projects have taken her across aggregate continents, including a recent course with her rapturously received wood concerto written for her by Christopher Theofanidis, “The Universe in Happy Motion,” which premiered at Bestow Park Music Festival and has been traveling to the Aspen Music Festival, Buffalo Philharmonic, BMOP, which is recording the reading, and elsewhere.
Other recent premieres include a concerto by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis, portray the London and Rochester Philharmonics, Chautauqua and Detroit Symphonies, essential recorded for Naxos with blue blood the gentry Peabody Institute Orchestra conducted by way of Leonard Slatkin; a short 1 piece, Siren, Kernis also wrote accompaniment her commissioned by the City Chamber Music Society; and unembellished double concerto by Kalevi Aho funding Marina and Vienna Philharmonic Foremost Harpist Anneleen Lenaerts.
Upcoming cabaret concerti by Tebogo Monnakgotla premiering with the Norrköping Symphony Team up and one from Clarice Assad.
Other recent highlights include a turn back engagement with the London Symphony conducted by Dennis Russell Davies for a recording of Miguel Kertsman’s Flute Concerto; the Universe Premiere of Kernis’s “Air” aim flute and orchestra with illustriousness Korean Chamber Orchestra conducted surpass Patrick Gallois at Seoul Music school Center; tours with Musicians hold up Marlboro, including concerts at Educator Hall, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Honourableness Smithsonian in DC, and Boston’s Gardner Museum; collaborations with position Brentano Quartet, the Beijing Bass Duo, and with Harpist Anneleen Lenaerts at the Aspen Penalization Festival, and The Bruckner Orchester Linz, Austria and at nobility Moritzburg Festival in Dresden; boss North American recital tour right pianist Andreas Haefliger at position Kennedy Center, Rockefeller University, Dallas’s Nasher Sculpture Center, and tight spot Akron, Ohio; and appearances reach guitarist Meng Su in San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre.
Her trine, Tre Voci, appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall, premiering a additional work written for it encourage Toshio Hosokawa, and in Mexico City, Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles and beyond.
Acclaimed for her “intent, glittering musicianship”(Sunday Times [London]), she evaluation a familiar and much-admired representation at the world’s foremost concurrence venues.
She has appeared in that soloist with the Boston, Hong Kong, Vienna, Montreal, Vancouver, Yeddo, Saint Louis, Toronto, and Governmental Symphonies, London and Rotterdam Philharmonics, and Ravenna Chamber Orchestra, delighted has worked with some admonishment the world’s most celebrated conductors, including Esa-Pekka Salonen, Seiji Conductor, Kurt Masur, Pierre Boulez, Myung-whun Chung, Gianandrea Noseda, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and Alan Gilbert.
She has also performed with the Edo, Mendelssohn, and Takács Quartets, Link percussion ensemble, and the Peiping and Brasil Guitar Duos. Keen regular partner of pianists Andreas Haefliger and Mitsuko Uchida, she is a longtime Resident Virtuoso at the Marlboro Festival, extort performed at Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival at Ozawa’s personal invitation.
A prodigious recording artist, she receptacle be heard on the Avie, Claves, and ECM labels, plus Tre Voci’s debut CD goods works by Tōru Takemitsu, Claude Debussy, and Sofia Gubaidulina; unadulterated DVD of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire from the Salzburg Festival, future with an accompanying documentary indulged Solar Plexus of Modernism; Bach’s complete flute sonatas and a cappella partitas with the Brasil Bass Duo; the flute sonatas accustomed Prokofiev and Franck with composer Andreas Haefliger; and Belle Époque, with pianist Anne Epperson; sonatas by Bartók, Martinů, Schulhoff, Dohnányi, and Taktakishvili; and an celebrated recording of her dazzling pose of the Paganini Caprices (published by Schott Music).
Her intense cooperation to education inspired her happen next create the Marina Piccinini Global Masterclasses (MPIMC), which has effusive students for over a decennium.
She is currently on greatness faculty of the Peabody Organization of Johns Hopkins University joy Baltimore, and was formerly Fellow at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in City, Germany. She also regularly gives masterclasses worldwide in conjunction down her performances.
Ms. Piccinini was picture first flutist to win nobleness coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Her career was launched considering that she won First Prizes fall apart the CBC Young Performers Striving in Canada and the Harmony Artists Guild International Competition extract New York City.
In 2023, she co-founded the Zauberklang Festival with pianist Andreas Haefligerin the sordid of Burglen, Switzerland which old saying an inaugural season that target violinist Hilary Hahn, tenor Ian Bostridge, and mandolin player Avi Avital, among others.
Piccinini was also named Cultural Ambassador Kanton URI. Born into a kith and kin of distinguished scientists, she lives with her family, splitting be a foil for time between Switzerland and Baltimore.
Ms. Piccinini appears by arrangement fine-tune Dworkin & Company.
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