Conservatory of Music

Nina Flyer

Nina Flyer is a lecturer in cello and chamber music and has been at the Conservatory of Music since 1997. She has also been a lecturer in cello at Cal State Hayward 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 and the Bear Valley Music Festival. She performs on a regular basis with the San Francisco Symphony and records for the TV and Motion Picture Industry. Ms. Flyer is an active and touring solo and chamber music performer both in the U.S. 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 CD's 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 CD of music by St. Saens and Mark Fish, for cello, piano and the narration of David Ogden Stiers, and it is due to be released soon. She recorded a piece called Flyer, for cello and orchestra, composed by Allan Crossman and dedicated to her, with the North/South Consonance in New York in 2007 and the CD was recently released.

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 Nina is the vice chair of the Local 6 Recording Committee.

In the Conservatory, Ms. Flyer teaches cello, coaches chamber music, and performs with The New Pacific Trio, the acclaimed resident piano trio.

Conservatory of Music
University of the Pacific
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