Artist Bio
Gina Luciani (USA)
Gina Luciani, a Utah Native, received her Bachelor of Music Degree in Flute Performance at the Colburn Conservatory of Music. She is now pursuing a Master of Music Degree in Flute Performance from the University of Southern California where she continues to study with Jim Walker.
Gina has soloed with the Colburn Contemporary Players, Utah Valley Symphony, Long Beach Mozart Festival, and Salt Lake Symphony. In December 2010 she was a featured soloist with the Colburn Chamber Music Society. She was a guest artist for the Utah Youth Symphony Orchestras and Ensembles “Alumni Recital Series,” Suzuki Association of Americas Conference, and Suzuki Flute Association of Utah. She was a soloist and chamber musician at the Clyde Montgomery Concert presented by the Shumei Arts Council. Gina was featured in the Utah Symphony's “All Star Evening,” and played with the orchestra for High School Musical 3. She was a member of the quintet that premiered Emmy Winning Composer Stephen Cohn’s “Sea Change” in April 2011. She has played with many legendary artists such as Kenneth Cooper. Mike Garson, Ronald Leonard, and Jim Walker.
Gina is currently one of the principal flutists of the University of Southern California Thornton Symphony and is a member of the American Youth Symphony. Gina has also been the principal flutist of the Colburn Orchestra, Colburn Outreach Orchestra, Los Angeles - St. Petersburg Russian String Orchestra, Young Musicians Foundation’s Debut Orchestra, Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra, Utah Chamber Chorale, and the Lyceum Repertory Orchestra.
In August 2011, Gina was the Winner of the Utah Valley Symphony’s Young Artist Competition and in October 2010, she was named the Grand Prize Winner of the Long Beach Mozart Festival Concerto Competition. She has also been awarded the 2007 Utah Flute Association High School Scholarship, Fe Bland and Santa Barbara Foundation Award of Merit in 2008 and 2010, two time winner of both the Utah Flute Association’s Sonata Night and Concerto Night, and superior ratings all twelve years she participated at the National Federation of Music Competition (in the Flute Solo, Flute Concerto, and Piccolo Concerto Divisions). She was chosen to play with the Suzuki Association of the Americas Flute Choir and the National Flute Association High School Flute Choir.
Gina began her flute training in earnest with Laurel Ann Maurer and continued with Dr. April Clayton, prior to coming to the Colburn Conservatory of Music. She has had lessons and masterclasses with world renown flutists such as Jeanne Baxtresser, Tadeu Coelho, Timothy Day, James Galway, Brad Garner, Sarah Jackson, Jeffrey Khaner, Robert Langevin, Marina Piccinini, Nestor Torres, and Carol Wincenc.