Julie Koidin Biography Continued

Julie Koidin is the Flute Lecturer at Loyola University in Chicago, and also teaches privately at area high schools: New Trier, Lake Forest and Loyola Academy.

She has lectured on choro at the National Flute Convention in Washington, D.C.; Ohio State University; Northwestern University; the University of Illinois; DePaul University; Lake Forest College; and the Sherwood Conservatory (Chicago).  In August 2010 she was invited by Trevor Wye and the British Flute Society to give a choro presentation at the bi-annual convention. 

In Brazil she has performed and taught at the FEMUSICA music festival in Campos de Goytacazes (annually since 2001), the Conservatório Brasileiro de Música, the Pro-Arte Music School (Rio de Janeiro), and the Brazilian federal universities of Natal, Recife and Brasilia. In January 2003, she taught and performed at the 25th International Winter Festival in Brasília.

In April 2003, Julie Koidin was the feature story and on the cover of Flute Talk Magazine.  She has authored several articles, published in Flute Talk Magazine, National Flute Association's Flutist Quarterly and The Instrumentalist.   She has also written reviews on new books and recordings for the National Flute Association's Flutist Quarterly.  (For more information, click on "Publications" tab above).

She holds both her doctorate (DM) and master's (MMus) degrees in flute performance from Northwestern University, and a BMus in flute performance from the University of Illinois. She has studied with Walfrid Kujala and Richard Graef (Chicago Symphony Orchestra), and Alexander Murray (formerly of the London Symphony). and has studied privately or in masterclasses with Paula Robison, Michel Debost, Donald Peck, Carol Wincenc, Arnold Jacobs, David Shostac, Keith Underwood, William Bennett and Kate Lucas.

In her free time, Julie Koidin is an avid tango dance enthusiast, and her main dance teachers have been in Brazil - Marcelo Martins and Laure and Luciano in Rio.