Dr. Julie Koidin

CTX FLUTE CAMP DIRECTOR:

Julie Koidin recently moved to Austin from the Chicago area where she has spent her career performing and teaching. She served as Adjunct Professor of Music at the University of Illinois since 2010 where she taught courses in music appreciation, Brazilian music and culture and classical music used in film and TV. She was the Flute Lecturer at Loyola University Chicago and also taught courses in flute performance and music appreciation at Triton College. Her teaching also includes various area high schools and middle schools in suburban Chicago.

Her coaching and conducting flute ensembles and other chamber groups includes her position as Woodwind Coach for the Hyde Park Youth Symphony (14 years), and for the Ravinia Festival's "Reach, Teach, Play" program. She has also extensively coached both ensembles and private lessons through her work with the U.S. State Department's Fulbright Scholarship Program. In 2002 she received the top position in both the U.S. and Brazil for a Fulbright Lecture-Research Grant. She has taught extensively in Brazil – at the federal universities of Rio (UNIRIO), Natal, Brasília, Recife, and in various festivals including FEMUSICA, the International Winter Festival of Domingos Martins and Brasília’s International Summer Festival. Julie has also received 7 other Fulbright Grants – Norway (2005), New Zealand (2006), Serbia (2008), Sweden (2011), Brazil (2014 & 2015), Ecuador (2016) and Colombia (2019) where she taught and performed U.S. repertoire. In 2021 she received a US State Department grant to implement a choro residency at ChiArts – a Chicago Public School arts high school.

As a soloist and chamber musician, Julie has had extensive travels to Brazil, researching and performing Brazilian classical music and choro – a style similar to samba. She has done 23 Brazilian tours since 1997 and has performed with legendary musicians such as Altamiro Carrilho (flute) and Maria Teresa Madeira (piano) who are also special guests on her Dois no Choro Juntos CD. Juntos was in the first-round nominations of the 2002 Latin Grammy Awards.

In 2016 Julie hosted and produced the 4-part choro documentary on the WFMT Radio Network. This was the first-ever internationally broadcast radio show in English and was produced to align with the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

In Austin, Julie has served as adjudicator for the TMEA competition and for various Austin Flute Society competitions. In Illinois, she judged various flute competitions including ILMEA, Festival of Flutes and the Society of American Musicians. Julie has also served on Fulbright's Peer Review Committee for the Fulbright Specialist Program and has been a peer reviewer for various academic journals. She currently is a reviewer of new materials for the National Flute Association's "Flutist Quarterly" and has authored two books on choro.

Julie received her doctorate and master’s degrees from Northwestern University and her bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.