Flutist Mindy Heinsohn is an active soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. Her performances have taken her from Europe to Central America and around the United States and Canada. In 2010, Ms. Heinsohn made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Yale Philharmonia under the baton of Kryzstof Penderecki. She has also worked with other notable conductors including Marin Alsop, Reinbert de Leeuw, Peter Oundjian and Giancarlo Guerrero.
Ms. Heinsohn has collaborated with internationally acclaimed artists such as Yura Lee, Marcy Rosen, Ani Kafavian, David Shifrin, and members of the Szymanowski Quartet and Ensemble Raro. She has performed in a number of festivals, including, the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival, the Pablo Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Moritzburg Festival Academy, Brevard Music Center, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute.
A dedicated pedagogue, Ms. Heinsohn has served as Lecturer in Music at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. She also served on the faculty at the International School of Music in Bethesda, Maryland and the Brigitte Steck Musikschule in Germany. Ms. Heinsohn teaches at the annual Flute Fever Summer Flute Institute in Harwood, Maryland and presents master classes at La Escuela Municipal de Música in Guatemala. She is Founder of the Puerto Rico Flute Club and Co-Founder of LIVE Performing Arts Studio in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she currently trains young talent who are looking to pursue careers in music.
Ms. Heinsohn holds a Master of Music from the prestigious Yale School of Music, as well as a Bachelor’s degree from Peabody Conservatory where she studied with world-renowned flutist Marina Piccinini. Other principal teachers include Ransom Wilson, Carol Wincenc, Mimi Stillman, and Josué Casillas Rivera. Currently, Ms. Heinsohn is Assistant Principal Flute of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra and the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra.