Daria Binkowski

    Daria Binkowski is a versatile and adventurous flutist who can be found playing anywhere and everywhere between a symphony orchestra, a contemporary music ensemble, or an electronic improvisation concert. Currently co-principal flute of the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra in Nishinomiya, Japan, Daria has appeared as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral member in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.  She is a co-founder and performer with the Talea Ensemble in New York, a group dedicated to contemporary music of both established and young composers.

     As a contemporary music specialist, Daria has performed with the Aspen Contemporary Music Ensemble, the Signal Ensemble, the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, and the East Coast Composers Ensemble. She has appeared at sych festivals as the Ojai Festival, the Greenwich Music Festival, the American Composers' Forum, the Nevada Encounters New Music Festival, and the Montreal/New Music Festival International. In addition to this, Daria has worked closely with and premiered the works of many young composers at festivals and universities across the United States and Canada including the Eastman School of Music, McGill University, Cornell University, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, and the University of Michigan. Daria recently made her first appearance as an electronic imporvisatory artist in England at the Aldeburgh New Music/New Media Festival in 2008.

      As an orchestral musician, Daria was recently a faculty member and guest artist at the Great Mountains Music Festival in South Korea. She has also performed with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, the Ohio Light Opera, and was a member of the Eastman School of Music Wind Ensemble during its 2004 tour of East Asia. Daria has performed as soloist with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Brockport Symphony Orchestra, and the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra in New York. She can be heard on recent CD releases of composers Jorge Grossman (Living Artists Label) and Alexandre Lunsqui (Gravine Musica) as well as recordings of the Ohio Light Opera and the Eastman School of Music Wind Ensemble. She has also appeared with the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble on National Public Radio's Performance Today.

          Daria received her Bachelor’s Degree from the Eastman School of Music, studying with Bonita Boyd, Anne Harrow, and Martha Aarons. She received her Master’s Degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, studying with Timothy Hutchins.