Ms. Piccinini’s repertoire is among the most diverse of today’s preeminent artists. Collaborating with some 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, Michael Torke, David Ludwig, and Roberto Sierra, Toshio Hosokawa, among dozens of others. These projects have taken her across multiple continents, including the premiere (co-commissioned for her by the London and Rochester Philharmonics, Chautauqua and Detroit Symphonies), and recording of Kernis’ flute concerto, with the Peabody Institute Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin, Air for flute and orchestra with the Korean Chamber Orchestra conducted by Patrick Gallois at Seoul Arts Center, and his Siren for solo plus 8 flutes at Seattle Chamber Music Society; a tour with her rapturously received flute concerto written for her by Christopher Theofanidis, The Universe in Ecstatic Motion, which premiered at Grant Park and Aspen Music Festivals, and Buffalo and Erie Philharmonics, forthcoming is a recording with Boston Modern Orchestra Project.  Other recent premieres include a double concerto by Kalevi Aho for Marina and Vienna Philharmonic Principal Harpist Anneleen Lenaerts premiering with Germany's Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and Belgium's Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, and a concerto by Tebogo Monnakgotla which premiered with Sweden’s Norrköping Symphony Orchestra. 

Other highlights include a return engagement with the London Philharmonic conducted by Dennis Russell Davies for a recording of Miguel Kertsman’s Flute Concerto; tours with Musicians from Marlboro, including concerts at Carnegie Hall, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, The Smithsonian in DC, and Boston’s Gardner Museum; performances with The Bruckner Orchester Linz in Austria and at the Moritzburg Festival in Dresden; a North American recital tour with pianist Andreas Haefliger at the Kennedy Center, Rockefeller University, Dallas’s Nasher Sculpture Center, and Akron Ohio’s Tuesday Musical Association; appearances with guitarist Meng Su in San Francisco’s Herbst Theater; and collaborations with the Brentano Quartet, Beijing Guitar Duo, harpist Anneleen Lenaerts, the Pacifica Quartet, Justin Taylor, Jean Rondeau, Anton Gerzenberg, and Avi Avital. Her trio Tre Voci, with violist Kim Kashkashian and harpist Sivan Magen, have appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall, at Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center, at other major venues in Boston, Philadelphia, NYC, Los Angeles, and in Italy, Mexico, and Canada.

Acclaimed for her “intent, glittering musicianship” (Sunday Times [London]), she is a familiar and much-admired figure at the world’s foremost concert venues. She has appeared as soloist with the Boston, Vienna, Montreal, Vancouver, Tokyo, Saint Louis, Toronto, and National Symphonies; London, Hong Kong, and Rotterdam Philharmonics; and Ravenna Chamber Orchestra; and has worked with some of the world’s most celebrated conductors, including Esa-Pekka Salonen, Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, Pierre Boulez, Myung-whun Chung, Gianandrea Noseda, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Alan Gilbert, and Cristian Mӑcelaru. She has also performed with the Tokyo, Mendelssohn, and Takács Quartets, NEXUS percussion ensemble, and the Beijing and Brasil Guitar Duos. A regular partner of Haefliger and Mitsuko Uchida, she is a longtime Resident Artist at the Marlboro Festival and performed at Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival at Ozawa’s personal invitation.

A prodigious recording artist, she can be heard on the Avie, Claves, Naxos, and ECM labels, including Tre Voci’s debut CD of works by Tōru Takemitsu, Claude Debussy, and Sofia Gubaidulina; a video of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire from the Salzburg Festival, along with an accompanying documentary entitled Solar Plexus of Modernism; Bach’s complete flute sonatas and solo partitas with the Brasil Guitar Duo; the flute sonatas of Prokofiev and Franck with Andreas Haefliger; and Belle Époque, with pianist Anne Epperson; sonatas by Bartók, Martinů, Schulhoff, Dohnányi, and Taktakishvili; and an acclaimed recording of her dazzling arrangement of the Paganini Caprices (published by Schott Music).

Her intense commitment to education motivated her to create the Marina Piccinini Institute (MPI), which has inspired students for almost two decades. She is currently on the faculty of the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and was formerly Professor at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hannover, Germany. She also regularly gives masterclasses worldwide in conjunction with her performances.

Ms. Piccinini was the first flutist to win the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant. Her career was launched when she won First Prizes in the CBC Young Performers Competition in Canada and the Concert Artists Guild International Competition in New York City. She began her studies in Toronto with Jeanne Baxtresser, received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Julius Baker, and also worked with renowned musician Aurèle Nicolet.

In 2023, she co-founded the Zauberklang Festival with pianist Andreas Haefliger in Canton Uri, in the heart of Switzerland, where she was also named Cultural Ambassador. Guest artists included Hilary Hahn, Ian Bostridge, and Avi Avital, the Brentano Quartet, and Emanuel Ax among others. Born into a family of distinguished scientists, she lives with her family, splitting her time between Switzerland and Vienna.

Marina Piccinini appears by arrangement with Dworkin & Company.

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