Publications - Julie Koidin, Flutist & Flute Instructor, based in Austin, TX and Chicago, IL : Julie Koidin, Flutist & Flute Instructor, based in Austin, TX and Chicago, IL

Books by Julie Koidin

Since 1995, Julie Koidin has been researching Brazilian choro music. Below you can find her various publications, including those about choro. Her two books – Choro Conversations: Pursuing Life, Love and Brazil’s Musical Identity (2013) and Os Sorrisos do Choro: Uma Jornada Musical Através Caminhos Cruzados (2011) are books based on her 2002 Fulbright Research Grant in Brazil. Choro Conversations is the English translation of Os Sorrisos do Choro – both published by Global Choro Music. Both books contain 52 interviews with important musicians, composers, and journalists in choro such as Hermeto Pascoal, Altamiro Carrilho, Sivuca, Joel Nascimento, Proveta, Guinga and Ary Vasconcelos. Choro Conversations can be purchased via PayPal. The Portuguese edition, Os Sorrisos do Choro is available for purchase at the publisher, Global Choro Music, as a hardcopy or as a pdf.

Price: $35

Doctoral Dissertation

“Benedicto Lacerda and the ‘Golden Age’ of Choro Flute Playing” (Northwestern University, 2006) is Koidin’s doctoral thesis on flutist Benedicto Lacerda and choro in the first half of the 20th century.
Copies of the thesis are available for purchase via PayPal.
PDF file for download. Price: $40

Articles About Julie Koidin

The following article features Julie Koidin’s research in choro:

Jicha, Victoria. “Brazilian Choro Music Sparks Career of a Fulbright Scholar,” Flute Talk Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 8, April 2003.

•“Choro, Chorinho!,” The Chicago Flute Club Pipeline, Jan. 2017.
•Isaacs, Mike, “Flutist Julie Koidin” Chicago Sun-Times, 2014
•Jicha, Victora, “Brazilian Choro Sparks Career of a Fulbright Scholar: An Interview with Julie Koidin,” Flute Tak Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 8, April 2003).

Articles by Julie Koidin:

•“Benedicto Lacerda and the Golden Age of Choro,” Luso Brazil Review, 48:1, June 2011 (36-60).*
•“Brazilian Choro: A Flutistic Journey,” The Chicago Flute Club Pipeline, Fall 2009, Vol. XIII, Issue 1 (15-17).
•“New Zealand’s Conducting Flutist: Uwe Grodd,” The Instrumentalist, Vol. 62, No. 4, Nov. 2007, 35-38., 40-42, 70.

Flute Talk Magazine Articles:

•“Teacher and Performer: Francesca Arnone,” Flute Talk May/June 2011, Vol. 30, No. 9 (16-18; 30)
•“Gaubert Vivant – Nicolas Duchamp and Gaubert’s Louis Lot,” Flute Talk, April 2011, Vol. 30, No. 8 (14-17) •#“Andras Adjoran: Music with Passion and Expression,” Flute Talk, Feb. 2011, Vol. 30, No. 6; 8-11;30. •#“The Golden Sound of Michael Faust,” Flute Talk, Sept. 2010, Vol. 30, No. 1. (10-12; 14-15;36-37.
•“Flute Lessons in Serbia,” Flute Talk, Dec. 2009 Vol. 29, No. 4 (18-23).
•Gergely Ittzés, Flute Talk, Sept. 2009, Vol. 29, No. 1 (6-9).
•”Berlin’s Principal Flute Emmanuel Pahud”, Flute Talk, Vol. 28, No. 2, Oct. 2008. 10-15; 39.
•“Flute in Brazil: An Interview with Celso Woltzenlogel,” Flute Talk, Vol. 27, No. 6, Feb. 2008. 14-18, 28-29.
•“Norwegian Flutist Gro Sandvik,” Flute Talk, Vol. 26, No. 2, October 2006, 12-15, 36.
•“Uwe Grodd: New Zealand’s Conducting Flutist,” Flute Talk, Vol. 27, No. 2, Oct. 2007, 10-14,16-17, 38 •“Teach Rhythm with Choro,” Flute Talk, Vol. 24, No. 5, January 2005, 18-19.

Flutist Quarterly (National Flute Association Publication):

•Review: “Tango Passion” and “Carlos Gardel: Flute Duets” arr. Diego Collatti. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XLIII, No. 2, Winter 2018, 70
•Review: “25 Piazzolla Tangos”. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XLIII, No. 2, Winter 2018, 71 •Review: “Rio de Janeiro” – Seth Johnson. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XLI, No. 2, Winter 2016, 61
•Review: “Mangabeira” -y Trio Virado. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XLI, No. 4, Summer 2016, 64-65
•Review: “Americas, from North to South” Duo de Vista. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XLI, No. 4, Summer 2016, 66.
•Review: “La Flauta de Buenos Aires – Paula Gudmundson. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XL, No. 2, Winter 2015, 60-61
•Review: Various music -Carmen Liliana Marulanda. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XLI, No. 1, Fall 2015, 60-61
•Review: “Upon a Ground” by Martin Erhardt. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XL, No. 4, Summer 2015, 88
•Review: “Gran Danzón” – Marth Councell-Vargas. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XL, No. 1, Fall 2014, 64-65
•Review: “Partita for Solo Flute” – J.S. Bach. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3, Spring 2014, 82-83
•Review: “Fofa le nna” – Marietjie Pauw & Barbara Highton Williams. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XXXIX, No. 1, Fall 2013, 59.
•Review: “Music from the Americas” – Lieurance Woodwind Quintet. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 4, Summer 2012, 84.
•Review: “Improv Games for One Player” – Jeffrey Agrell. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, Winter 2011, 60.
•Review: “Brésil 1900” Jean-Louis Beaumadier, piccolo. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, Winter 2010, 59.
•Review: “Argentine Music “– Viviana Guzmán, The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, Fall 2008, 68.
•Review: Global Choro Music, The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4, Summer 2008, 44.
•“The Brazilian Choro: Historical Perspectives and Performance Practices,” Co-authored with Dr. Tadeu Coelho. The Flutist Quarterly, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, Fall 2005, 44-53.

OTHER

•Editor of flute part, Blue Reflections by Robert Kritz (approximately 2000)