EVANGELINA REYES

BIOGRAPHY:

She graduated with honors from the Faculty of Music of the University of Veracruz. Ganadora de "Myrna Brown International Scholarship 2022 de la National Flute Asociation in USA. She was awarded with the Myrna Brown International Scholarship of the National Flute Association of the United States of America in January 2022, award granted to only one flutist from the entire world in consideration to the professional achievements of the performer and the actions taken to promote the musical cultural heritage of her birth country.

Since 2001, she has been the Principal Flutist of Mexico’s National Symphony Orchestra (OSN), and has performed as a soloist several times with this orchestra. She has been the principal flutist and soloist of several national orchestras since 1995.

Evangelina won the Fulbright Scholarship to pursue her Master's degree at Duquesne University and studied flute lessons at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania with Alberto Almarza.

She has been awarded first place in several competitions, including the National Young Flute Players Competition, the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra Soloists Competition, and the 2013 National Flute Association Convention Performers Competition in New Orleans, where she received great critical acclaim for her performance. She also participated in the National Flute Association in Chicago (2015), Washington DC (2017) and Minneapolis (2018).

Evangelina was invited to the International Convention of the National Association of Flautists of Spain which took place in Valencia in 2018, the International Flautist Festival in Peru, and the “Flautas del Mundo” Festival in Argentina.

She has been a FONCA and a Fulbright fellow on several occasions

Evangelina is the main promoter worldwide of Mexican music for flute and has where she has presented that repertoire throughout Mexico, as well as in Japan, the United States, Central and South America.

She has recorded four albums with a compilation of Mexican music for flute and piano (Urtext label). Her albums have had international success and, for this reason, she has been invited to represent Mexico in the most important Flute Festivals in Spain, Argentina, Peru and the United States. Several important composers in Mexico have dedicated flute concertos to her.

Evangelina is currently working on a project to compile a catalog of all Mexican music for her instrument together with flutists from 8 Latin American countries, in order to promote the entire Latin American flute repertoire internationally online.

The 4th and 5th albums of Mexican music for flute and guitar will be released in 2023, corresponding to the series “INVOCATIONS of Mexican music of the XX and XXI centuries”. She has also recorded with her wind quintet "Cameristas de México" for the Quindecim label.