Kaoru Hinata, flute

Kaoru Hinata, flutist, has performed with the New Jersey Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, Albany Symphony, the Berkshire Opera Orchestra, and has been a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Ms. Hinata was the first prize winner of the Lawrence Beauregard Competition in Canada and the second prize winner in the Myrna Brown Competition in Texas. She has been featured as soloist with the Norfolk Festival Chamber Orchestra and the New York Choral Society Symphony, and has premiered flute works by Christopher Theofanidis and Dan Sonenberg. Her teachers include Ransom Wilson, Walfrid Kujala, and Keith Underwood. She is on the faculty of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and is a Resident Teaching Artist at the Bloomingdale School of Music.