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A native of Japan, flutist Koaki Shinkai made her New York Debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in 1996 which the New York Concert Review described as “a difficult program performed with impressive technique, musicianship, tone and projection...proved herself to be a flutist of exceptional abilities.”
Koaki has also performed solo recitals at Merkin Concert Hall as a
winner of the Artists International Audition and at CAMI Hall as a
second-prize winner of the New York Flute Club Young Artists
Competition. As an orchestral musician she has performed with New York
Virtuosi, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Virtuosi, DiCapo
Opera Theater, the Westchester Chamber Orchestra and the Asian Artists &
Concerts Orchestra as well as orchestras of Broadway musicals such as
Les Misérables, Baz Lurhmann’s La Boheme and James Joyce’s The Dead. Her
festival appearances include Tanglewood, Sarasota and Waterloo. Koaki
has also appeared as a soloist with the Long Island Conservatory & SUNY
Old Westbury’s International Music Festival Orchestra.
She received her Bachelor’s degree from the Oberlin College Conservatory and her Master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Michel Debost and Michael Parloff. She is on the faculty at the Long Island Conservatory. Koaki resides in New York City with her husband Gen Shinkai, also a flutist.
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