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Nina Flyer

Nina Flyer joined the CSUEB Music faculty as lecturer in cello in Fall, 2010. She has also been a lecturer in cello and chamber music at University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music since 1997 and has and taught at the Reykjavik School of Music. She holds a B.M. from the University of Southern California and has also studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Vienna Academy of Music. Her major teachers include Ronald Leonard, Gabor Rejto, Vladmir Orloff and Frank Miller.

Ms. Flyer has been principal cellist of the Jerusalem Symphony, the Iceland Symphony, the Bergen (Norway) Symphony, acting principal in the San Diego Symphony, and principal of the Women's Philharmonic. She is currently principal cello of the Pacific Chamber Symphony. She performs on a regular basis with the San Francisco Symphony and records for the television and motion picture industry. Ms. Flyer is an active and touring solo and chamber music performer both in the United States. and abroad. She has an established reputation for playing contemporary music and performs with Composer's Inc. and the San Francisco Contemporary Players. She is featured on two CDs that have been nominated for Grammys. One CD features a cello work by Shulamit Ran, recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra, and the other CD includes two cello suites by Lou Harrison. She also recorded a recently-released CD of music by Saint-Saëns and Mark Fish, for cello, piano and the narration of David Ogden Stiers.

Ms. Flyer is a member of the American Federation of Musicians, American String Teachers Association, Chamber Music America, Northern California Cello Club, and Pi Kappa Lambda. She is on the board of the Recording Musician's Association of San Francisco, and is on the executive board of the International Recording Musician's Association.

(10/1/2010)