Bio

Kim Pineda has performed on historical flutes and recorders, and as a conductor throughout the U.S., Canada, in Israel, and on NPR. Founder and music director of Baroque Northwest, he has worked with leading early music players and ensembles in the U.S. He has performed at the Boston, Berkeley, Long Beach Bach, and Bloomington early music festivals, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, and has recorded on the Focus, Centaur, and Origin Classical labels.Kim received the Master of Music degree from Washington University, St. Louis, and the Bachelor of Music degree from California State University Northridge. He has taught at Indiana University, USC, North Seattle Community College, at workshops sponsored by the San Francisco and San Diego early music societies and the Seattle Recorder Society, and co-directs the Flute Extremes workshop with Molly Barth, and for 15 years directed Baroque Northwest's Baroque Flute Boot Camp. Kim is currently pursuing a PhD in Musicology from the University of Oregon. Other interests include the culinary and healing arts, cycling, and the pursuit of the ultimate cadence. In his spare time he reads non-fiction and contributes to The Fugal Gourmet food blog.

REVIEWS

• "Superbly accomplished" Los Angeles Times "
• A superb exponent of the recorder and flute" Seattle Post-Intelligencer 
• "A recorder virtuoso whose faultless pitch and sensitive playing knocked me out" The Stranger 
• "Kim Pineda turned in an exceptional performance" The Oregonian 
• "Couldn't have been much better without going into orbit" Los Angeles Weekly 
• "I am taken by the phenomenal talent of Pineda" Bloomington Voice 
• "Pineda is an effortless performer on his instruments" Seattle Post-Intelligencer 
• "An expert player" Indianapolis Star 
• "A phenomenal performer" Santa Barbara News Press
• "Much of the concert rested on the broad shoulders and tireless chops of Kim Pineda"  Los Angeles Times