Kanae Kimura

 

Kanae Kimura received a Bachelor of Music at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, where she studied with Soichi Minegishi, Akira Shirao and Yasushi Watanabe, with the first-class honor in the wind department. She also attended at the Toho Orchestra Academy with full scholarship and is currently pursuing a Master of Music in flute performance at The Boston Conservatory, where she is a student of Ms.Geralyn Coticone, retired solo piccoloist at Boston Symphony Orchestra.

 

As a soloist, Kanae has performed in several honors concerts including Toho Gakuen Graduate Honors Concert, The 79th Yomiuri Annual Concert and The Flute Debut Recital in Japan. She also joined a lot of world-class musicians’ master classes such as Timothy Hatchins, Emily Beynon, Paul Edmund-Davies, Michael Debost and Claire Chase. In the winter of 2012, she won the Boston Conservatory Instrumental Concerto Competition and performed Ibert’s flute concerto with its orchestra under the conducting of Bruce Hangen. She also collaborated with the Boston College 150th Gala concert and performed Chaminade’s concertino with the Boston Conservatory Wind Ensemble at the Boston Symphony Hall in the fall of 2013. In the spring of 2016, she was selected as Co-Recipient of the Boston Woodwind Society Droiot Anthony Dwyer Flute Merit Award. 

 

As a chamber and orchestra player, she has performed as a member of Asia Philharmonic Orchestra Academy under conducting of Chung Myung-Whun in Korea, also performed as a guest artist for New Japan Philharmonic and Tokyo Prime Symphony Orchestra in Japan. After she came to the U.S., she joined several orchestra projects and festivals such as The Boston Conservatory Orchestra, Hot Springs Music Festival and International Lyric Opera Festival as a principal flutist.