Kim Pineda -- Transverse Flute and Recorder

Kim Pineda photo by William Stickney Photography LLC

Kim Pineda (Transverse Flute and Recorder) has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, in Israel, and on NPR. Founder and music director of Baroque Northwest, he performs regularly with leading early music ensembles in the U.S. He has performed at the Boston, Berkeley, Long Beach Bach, and Bloomington early music festivals, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, and has recorded on the Focus, Centaur, and Origin Classical labels.

Kim received the Master of Music degree from Washington University, St. Louis, and the Bachelor of Music degree from California State University Northridge. He has taught at Indiana University, USC, North Seattle Community College, at workshops sponsored by the San Francisco and San Diego early music societies and the Seattle Recorder Society, and directs Baroque Northwest's Baroque Flute Boot Camp in Seattle. Other interests include the culinary, martial, and healing arts, cycling, zymurgy, and the pursuit of the ultimate cadence. In his spare time he reads non-fiction.

Reviews

  • "Superbly accomplished"   Los Angeles Times
  • "A superb exponent of the recorder and flute"   Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • "A recorder virtuoso whose faultless pitch and sensitive playing knocked me out" The Stranger
  • "Kim Pineda turned in an exceptional performance"   The Oregonian
  • "Couldn't have been much better without going into orbit"   Los Angeles Weekly
  • "I am taken by the phenomenal talent of Pineda"   Bloomington Voice
  • "Pineda is an effortless performer on his instruments"   Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  • "An expert player"   Indianapolis Star
  • "A phenomenal performer"   Santa Barbara News Press

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