Evangelina Reyes I Official Website

Principal Flute

National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico

México con Brío - Flute & Piano

Confluencia Duo - Flute & Guitar

Bio

Evangelina Reyes was born in Mexico City, grew up in Xalapa, Veracruz, and graduated with honors from the School of Music at the Universidad Veracruzana. Her teachers were Claire Scandrett, Cesar Velazquez, Natalia Valderrama, Cecilia Valdez, and Sabina Lauraint. She also studied with Alberto Almarza at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She has participated in the masterclasses of Alain Marion, Alexa Still, and Paul Davies, and had additional private study with Bradley Garner, Phillipe Boucley, Andres Adorjan, and Aldo Baerten.
She was the first prize winner of the 2000 National Competition of Young Flutists, as well as the winner of the first Solo Competition of the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Reyes Lopez is currently Principal Flute of the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, a position she has held since 2001. She previously had been the principal in the Youth Orchestra of the State of Veracruz, the State of Hidalgo Symphony, the Sinfónica Carlos Chavez, and the Durango Philharmonic “Ricardo Castro”. She has appeared as soloist with all of these orchestras, as well as with the Xalapa Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of the UNAM-ENP, Chihuahua Orchestra, NAtional Symphony in Perú, Monterrey Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Bellas Artes, and morein her country.
On two occasions, she was awarded performance scholarships by the National Endowment for Culture and Art (FONCA) and by the Mexico City government. She was a Fulbright scholar in 2001. In 2005, she entered a proposal for the creation of an interdisciplinary project, Musical Stories for Children, which was accepted and supported by the National Council for Culture and Art, and by the “México en Escena” program.

Her repertoire encompasses much of the Mexican and Latin American music that has been composed for solo flute and for flute and piano. She has included this music in her concert engagements in Japan and the United States. In 1993, she was featured in the Europalia Festival, with concerts in the Belgian cities of Brussels, Binche, Dinant, Liege, Luxemburg, and Hainaut. i In 2013 She won The National Flute Association Convention (NFA) Performers Competition in New Orleans. After that the NFA invited her each year to play with latin or mexican Music as NFA Chicago 2014, NFA Whashington 2015 and NFA Minneapolis 2017. She was sopported by the goverment to buy three CD with an excelente recopilation of Mexican Music for Flute and Piano for he Urtext Label with his "México con Brío " for flute an d piano. She also has recorded the music of Martinu with the Chamber Soloists of Mexico for the Quindecim label.

She gave masterclsses in many countries as Argentina Mendoza, Salvador, Nicaragua, Perú and for all the mexican Republic in important Flute Festival around the world. This Year She will play a latinoamerican program in the 5 Convencion de la Asociación de Flautistas de España en Valencia.

She has been professor of flute at the Music School of the Universidad Veracruzana, the Instituto Superior de Música de la Secretaría de Educación y Cultura de Veracruz (of which she is also a founder), the Mexican State Conservatorio de Música, and the Escuela de Perfeccionamiento Musical at Ollin Yoliztli, in Mexico City. She has also taught at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, and in various schools in the state of Oaxaca.