Julie Koidin
	Title:	Music Instructor
	Office:	Mundelein 1202
	Phone:	773-508-8319
	E-mail:	jkoidin@luc.edu

Personal Information

Degree:
D.M., Northwestern
M.M., Northwestern
B.M., University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana, IL)

Courses being taught this Fall and Spring:
Applied Flute
Art of Music Listening

Flutist Julie Koidin is a native of Chicago. As a soloist, her performances include various programs on WFMT'S "Live from WFMT/Studio One", the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series, and the Volta Redondo Orchestra in Brazil.

She also performs as a chamber musician, and is a founding member of “Facetada,” an organization dedicated to performing works by Latino composers.  She is formerly a member of the Pilgrim Chamber Players, and has performed as a guest in the MAVerick Ensemble, CUBE, Flutes Fantastique, and other organizations.

As an orchestral musician, she has performed with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, I Musici de Montreal, the Choral Ensemble of Chicago, South Suburban Symphony, and the Lake Shore Symphony, to name a few.

Dr. Koidin is one of a only a handful of specialist in the U.S. on Brazilian "choro" music, a genre which developed alongside samba in the late 1800s. She has performed choro music and other Brazilian genres in both the U.S. and Brazil, playing with legendary Brazilian flutists Altamiro Carrilho, Carlos Poyares, Andréa Ernest Dias, pianist Maria Teresa Madeira, and groups such as Nó em Pingo D'Água and Rabo de Lagartixa.  In 2001 she was the only U.S. musician to perform alongside of Altamiro Carrilho in a gala concert celebrating his career at the Teatro Municipal in São Paulo.

Since 1997 she has performed with Paulinho Garcia in their duo, "Dois no Choro" and recorded two cds - Carinhoso (2000) and Juntos (2002), the latter of which received two first round nominations ("Best Album" and "Best Brazilian Roots Album") in the  2003 Latin Grammy Awards as well as a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.   “Dois no Choro” is currenty working on their third CD, which, like Juntos, received an Illinois Arts Council Grant for its production.

Dr. Koidin has been featured twice in Flute Talk magazine, both as a cover-story interview (April 2003) as well as  author ("Teach Rhythm with Choro" Jan. 2005, “Norwegian Flutist Gro Sandvik” Oct. 2006; and “New Zealand’s Conducting Flutist” Oct. 2007).   With Dr. Tadeu Coelho, she co-authored, “The Brazilian Choro:  Historical Perspectives and Performance Practices” (National Flute Association’s Flutist Quarterly, Fall 2005).  In 2002 Dr. Koidin became a Fulbright scholar receiving the top position in both the U.S. and Brazil for a lecture/research grant in choro.  She has since received two more Fulbright Grants – 2006 to Norway (Grieg Institute in Bergen, and the universities in Trondheim, Stavanger and Tromsø) and 2007 to New Zealand (Universities of Auckland and Waikato).

Member:

• On Peer Review Committee for U.S. Studies/Fulbright Senior Specialist Program

• Fulbright Association

• National Flute Association

• Chicago Flute Club