Nicole Riner is an active recitalist, clinician, and freelance flutist. She been a member of various chamber ensembles and orchestras in Michigan, Indiana, Colorado, and Wyoming and has performed at summer festivals in the United States and Germany. Recent solo performances include the 2007 National Flute Association Convention and the world premieres of new works by composers Richard Faith and Randall Shin.
Nicole currently serves on the music faculties of University of Northern Colorado, where she teaches flute and coordinates woodwind chamber music, and University of Wyoming, where she is guest artist faculty in flute. Prior appointments include the nationally recognized Interlochen Arts Camp, Michigan State University, and Indiana University. In the greater flute community, Nicole also served as president of the Colorado Flute Association from 2004-2006 and as musical director of the Rocky Mountain Flute Choir from 2003-2005.
In addition to these appointments, Nicole is dedicated to performing and recording new music written for flute. She is a participant in the American Women Composer's Project, a nationally endowed organization designed to promote the performance of women's music and commission new chamber works for flute. She is also co-founder of SPANK Music Ensemble, a contemporary music quartet.
Much in demand as a clinician and lecturer, her doctoral research has been presented at national and international conferences. Her dissertation, The Girls in the Band: Women's Perspectives on Gender Stereotyping in the Music Classroom has been presented at national and international conferences in Colorado, Wyoming, and Hawaii, and her research has been published in the online magazine GEMS (Gender, Education, and Music Studies). Her pedagogical writings have been published in Colorado Flutist, International Tuba-Euphonium Association Journal, and Flute Talk.
Nicole received the Doctor of Music in flute performance and literature from Indiana University. Previous teachers include Kathryn Lukas, Barbara Kallaur (Baroque flute), Richard Sherman, Alexander Murray, and Dr. Janice Boland. She can be heard on recordings with Wyoming Symphony and Mahler Fest, and her faculty recitals have been broadcast on Interlochen Public Radio.
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