Nicole Esposito
Assistant Professor
Flute
Phone: (319) 335-1676
Office: 3729 UCC
nicole-esposito@uiowa.edu

www.neflute.com

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Nicole Esposito

A charismatic and versatile flutist, Nicole Esposito is the flute professor at The University of Iowa. She has achieved a career as a soloist, teacher, chamber and orchestral musician on an international level having been a featured across the United States, Europe, Central and South America. Esposito has performed at numerous events including the National Flute Association Conventions in Orlando, Washington DC, Nashville, San Diego, Pittsburgh and Kansas City, as well as regional conferences including the Florida Flute Fair, Madison Flute Festival and the Iowa Flute Festival. Recent and upcoming invitations include appearances at the Festival Virtuosi in both Recife and Gravatá, Brazil, the International Flute Festival sponsored by the Brazilian Flute Association, the International Flute Festival of Costa Rica, as well as Latin American Meeting of Flutists in Honduras.

In addition to her teaching position at The University of Iowa, Professor Esposito has served on the faculties of the Five Seasons Chamber Music Festival, the All-State Program of the University of Michigan at Interlochen, the Interlochen Arts Camp, and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville.  Sought after as a master class teacher, she has recently given master classes for the Young Musicians Foundation in Evanston, Wyoming, Utah State University, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Butler University, Truman State University, Oklahoma State University, University of Arkansas, University of Michigan. National University of Costa Rica, and the National Institute of Music Costa Rica. Recent visits to Brazil include classes at the Escuola Municipal de Musica,  Faculdade Canteriera, and the Baccarelli Institute in Sao Paulo.

As an orchestral musician, Esposito has performed under some of the worlds leading conductors, including James Conlon, David Zinman, Gunther Schuller, Robert Spano, Micheal Stern, David Robertson, James DePreist, Anne Manson, Lawrence Foster, Leif Segerstam, and Andrew Litton. Former principal flute with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, she has also performed with the Cedar Rapids Symphony, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony, Youngstown (OH) Symphony, and the Johnstown and Westmoreland (PA) Symphony Orchestras. Esposito has held the Piccolo Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival and has also been Principal Flute of the Ohio Light Opera, with whom she can be heard on three recordings (Albany Records). She has participated in a number of other music festivals including the Brevard Music Center, The Youth Orchestra of the Americas, and the National Orchestral Institute.

Profesor Esposito holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan.  She has been a finalist or prizewinner in several prestigious competitions including the National Flute Association’s Young Artist, Piccolo Artist, and Orchestral Competitions, the WAMSO Competition sponsored by the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition. Additionally she has published articles on Banddirector.com, Flute Focus and Flute Talk Magazines and serves as president of the Eastern Iowa Flute Association.  Her primary flute teachers include Jeanne Baxtresser, Amy Porter, Marianne Gedigian, Jennifer Connor, and Catherine Payne, with additional study with Mark Sparks, Alberto Almarza, and Doriot Anthony Dwyer.

Nicole Esposito performs on the 14k Emanuel Flute #150.  For more information please visit www.neflute.com

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