First Prize Winner in the Laurence Beauregard Competition and winner of the 2009 YouTube Symphony Competition, Sankyo Artist Nina Perlove is one of the most listened to classical flutists of her generation with over 7 million views to her online video performances and tutorials worldwide. Perlove’s mesmerizing performances, inspiring teaching, and remarkable ability to distribute her art in a meaningful way over the internet are transforming classical music and reinvigorating audiences on every continent, from young children to retirees and everyone in between. Reviewers have called her “a worldwide phenomenon,” and she has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and other major media. Her groundbreakingwebsite www.REALFLUTEproject.com has earned a loyal following and combines her dynamic video performances and teaching with musical commentary and research.
A product of the finest French and American training, Perlove began her flute studies at age seven with Nancy Waring in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She continued her studies with Keith Bryan and Leone Buyse at the University of Michigan and later earned a Fulbright to study with Alain Marion and Sophie Cherrier in Paris, France. After two years abroad, she returned to the U.S. to study with Brad Garner and Jack Wellbaum, earning an MM and DMA from the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.
Nina has won prizes in numerous contests, including the National Flute Association Young Artist Competition, the Cincinnati Flute Symposium Performer’s Competition, and the Richardson Young Artist Competition. She has performed throughout the United States and Europe, including appearances in France, Germany, Italy,Spain, and Austria and has extensive performance experience in both traditionaland contemporary solo and chamber music. In orchestras, Perlove has held positions with the Spoleto USA and Graz Festival Orchestras, the Jackson and Lansing Michigan Symphony Orchestras, and has appeared with the Charleston Symphony. Perlove has given masterclasses in the United States and Italy and is currently on the faculty of Northern Kentucky University. She has adjudicated competitions including the Concours General de Musique LeopoldBELLAN, the Midsouth Flute Society, the Central Ohio Flute Fair, the Overture Awards, and the National Flute Association Dissertation Prize.
In addition to her flute performing and teaching, Perlove “is a fine writer, music critic, and advocate for modern music” (J. Pritchard, The Flute Network). Her articles have appeared in publications including Perspectives of New Music, American Music, Pan Magazine, Windplayer Magazine, Flute Talk Magazine, and The Flutist Quarterly. Her doctoral thesis on the flute music of Aaron Copland won the 2004 National Flute Association Dissertation Prize for outstanding contribution to flute scholarship. She is currently on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Flutist Quarterly.
As an expert is using the web and social media, she also works as an arts consultant. She was recently an Artist Development Advisor to the YouTube Symphony 2011, a project in which she promoted, performed in and hosted a week of music events in Sydney, Australia which was broadcast live to over 33 million viewers. As Executive Director of the Starling Project Foundation from 2002--2007, she won a prestigious WebbyAward for the teaching website Violinmasterclass.com; created a summer music school in Beijing, China; commissioned works by diverse composers; and created and performed in chamber music concerts for economically disadvantaged schoolchildren. Currently she serves as Consultant/Executive Director for the American Classical Music Hall of Fame, where she redeveloped the organization's website, oversees the awarding and presentation of Inductee medallions, and is working to build an interactive Virtual Walk of Fame in Cincinnati's Washington Park.
Perlove was the 2009 Honoree by Leading Women Cincinnati in Arts and Entertainment and is an Artist for Sankyo Flutes, Japan.