Kathryn will be attending Northwestern University in the fall of 2014 majoring in both flute performance and liberal arts.
Kathryn Chiodo began playing the flute at the age of ten and has been studying under Hideko Amano for the past seven years. She has won numerous competitions including the Chicago Flute Club Junior Division, Society of American Musicians Junior Division, and Honorable Mention for the Walgreens Concerto Competition in the Senior Division.
In 2014, she has been named the Luminarts Cultural Foundation Classical Music Winner in the High School division, she has won a 2014 Park Ridge Civic Orchestra Student Scholarship, and she’s also received the distinction of Honorable Mention at the DePaul University Concerto Competition. She has been a musician in the Midwest Young Artists’ orchestral program for seven years, the last three of which she has been principal flutist in their Symphony Orchestra. Kathryn has spent the past two summers studying at the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp where she played in the World Youth Wind Symphony and the World Youth Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to her solo and orchestral work, Kathryn has been a part of an intensive woodwind chamber group program for the last five years. Her chamber group was recognized as a Quarterfinalist in the Junior Division of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and as the winner in the Other Instruments category of the Discover National Chamber Music Competition for the last two years. Kathryn will be attending Northwestern University in the fall of 2014 majoring in both flute performance and liberal arts.
Program:
Frank Martin: Ballade for flute and piano
Saint-Saëns: Romance Op. 37 for flute and piano
Mozart: Flute Concerto in G Major
I. Allegro maestoso
Philipe Gaubert: Nocturne et Allegro Scherzando
I. Andante
II. Allegro vivo e scherzando