Nina Flyer
Nina Flyer has toured, recorded and taught throughout Europe, Scandinavia, and America. She has been Principal Cellist with the symphonies of Jerusalem, Bergen (Norway), and Iceland, the Women’s Philharmonic, the Bear Valley Orchestra, and has held the post of acting Principal Cellist with the San Diego Symphony. She is presently Principal Cellist of the Pacific Chamber Symphony, as well as cello and chamber music professor and member of the acclaimed in-residence piano trio, Trio 180, at the University of the Pacific, Conservatory of Music. Ms. Flyer also teaches cello at the California State University (East Bay) School of Music. She records frequently for the TV and Motion Picture Industry, and performs on a regular basis with the San Francisco Symphony.
As a proponent of contemporary music, Ms. Flyer plays regularly with Composers Inc. and has had many pieces written for her. Ms. Flyer is a featured soloist on two recent CDs: a concerto by Shulamit Ran, performed with the English Chamber Orchestra; and solo and chamber works by Lou Harrison, both out on KOCH International. These two CDs have met with great critical acclaim and have both been nominated for GrammyTM Awards. The San Francisco Chronicle stated, “Nina Flyer’s sonorous cello playing was something to savor” , while The Jerusalem Post wrote, “…fine musician...committed interpreter...smooth technique and controlled emotionalism…”; a CD reviewer in Strings Magazine wrote, “hauntingly beautiful performance”.
Ms. Flyer’s newest CD, featuring original and arranged works for cello and piano, and narrated by David Ogden Stiers, won the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio “Best Audio of 2010” award. She recorded a piece called “Flyer”, for cello and orchestra, composed by Allan Crossman, and dedicated to her, with the North/South Consonance in New York in 2007; the CD was released in 2008. Ms. Flyer is anxiously awaiting the return of the sea lions and harbor seals to Mission Creek, close to where she lives in San Francisco.
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